The chipmaker announces two new Itanium processors for two-processor servers, another step in the company's efforts to eliminate price as a barrier to Itanium acceptance. Michael Kanellos is editor at ...

Server manufacturer RackSaver said Wednesday that it will adopt Intel's Itanium 2 processor for a new line of machines aimed at the high-performance computing market. RackSaver, which sells only ...

Hewlett-Packard, one of the most aggressive promoters of Intel's Itanium family of processors, is ditching its line of workstations that use the chips. The decision by the Palo Alto, Calif.-based ...

Intel said Wednesday that it has produced samples of Madison, a third version of the Itanium processor, and has booted up "multiple operating systems" on it. Intel President Paul Otellini, speaking at ...

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released software designed to improve the performance of Windows applications designed for 32-bit processors when they are running on Intel’s 64-bit Itanium ...

Even Intel can’t dictate the future. In a blog post on Friday, a Microsoft employee explained Microsoft’s plan to phase out support for Intel’s 64-bit Itanium CPU in favor of a 64-bit version of the ...

Unless you’re willing to sift through technical minutia and swim through murky marketing hype, you could miss the potential benefits of Intel Corp.’s Itanium processor. Intel has projected a lengthy ...

Intel, perhaps in reaction to AMD’s release of the 32/64-bit Opteron processor, said it plans to run 32-bit applications faster on future Itanium processors and ease users’ migration to the 64-bit ...

Windows Server 2003 could be the impetus Intel’s Itanium servers need to compete against their enterprise Unix counterparts. At the launch event for Microsoft’s newest operating system last week, a ...

The next-generation Itanium chip will now be released in first quarter of 2010 as Intel adds application scalability enhancements After multiple delays, Intel on Thursday once again pushed back the ...

The Itanium 2 9000 series, formerly code-named Montecito, is the architecture's first dual-core model and will run at 1.4GHz to 1.6GHz with 6 Mbytes to 24Mbytes of onboard L3 cache, Pat Gelsinger, ...

Intel Corp. last week said the next version of its 64-bit Itanium 2 chip will come with new software designed to improve the performance of 32-bit applications running on Itanium 2 systems. The new ...