In a strange twist of fate, the depreciated Itanium IA-64 architecture is getting a new lease on life, at least sort of.

Though Itanium unit shipments are low relative to the chip giant's enormous business in x86-based PC and server chips, Skaugen said Intel has gained share in the market for the expensive ...

A year later, Intel added dual cores to its Itanium line. In the late 2000s, CPUs with two or more cores gained momentum not only in servers, but in desktop and laptop computers as well.