“[Itanium] will be remembered as one of those interesting architectural experiments. It lived a lot longer than others,” McCarron said. PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the ...

Intel has scaled back plans for its next Itanium chip, prompting observers the question Intel’s commitment to the chip. Intel said the next version of Itanium, codenamed Kittson, will be a 32nm ...

Intel chose a pilot programme for the first phase of its Itanium launch. PC makers that participate in the program can ship small numbers of near-production-level systems to customers for evaluation.

For some fringe scenarios, Itanium was very performant and even ideal. But as Colwell knew, even back then, backward compatibility is king, especially on the PC, and especially in the enterprise.

The Round Rock, Texas-based PC manufacturer has no definite plans for Itanium 2 servers and will not be on hand when Intel unveils the chip, said a company representative. "At this point ...

To date, Intel has shipped about 40,000 Itanium chips via sample and pilot programs. The chipmaker has said it expects eight to 10 PC makers to initially announce products based on the chip.

Learn More. Compaq Computer Corp. has started production on its first Itanium-based server after a five-month delay it blamed on problems with Intel Corp.s new 64-bit chip. While the new system ...

New York; and Rockville, Md. One of his many challenges now is to evaluate servers based on Intel Corp.s new Itanium chip. eWeek Editor at Large and ZCast.tv Editor in Chief John Dodge caught up ...