Officially, Intel's Itanium chips and their IA-64 architecture died back in 2021, when the company shipped its last processors. But failed technology often dies a million little deaths. To name ...

When Intel launched its first Itanium processor in 2001, it had very high hopes: the 64-bit chip was supposed to do nothing less than kill off the x86 architecture that had dominated PCs for over ...

Itanium spent the rest of its life struggling to differentiate itself meaningfully from big Xeons, and by 2008 HP had to pay Intel nearly half a billion dollars to keep making CPUs for Itanium servers ...

Intel has officially ceased the supply of the Itanium processor, its once much-hyped family of 64-bit processors. The company announced the discontinuation of the Itanium family in January 2019 ...

After 20 years of being a loud resounding yawn in the computer world, Intel has finally put its Itanium product to sleep. The company stopped shipping its Itanium processors last week after ...

Itanium was the offspring of a 1990's partnership between HP and Intel, back when the range of ISAs in use was far more diverse than the x86 ...

After languishing for many years, it appears that IA-64 may soon die off. Intel is set to discontinue their Itanium CPUs in 2021.

While the current Itanium 9700 series offers some solid server-focused features like four-way hyperthreading and strong reliability and scalability, their value is simply atrocious. The flagship 8 ...

Intel announced shipments of Itanium 9700-series CPUs will end on July 29, 2021, though HP Enterprise, the last remaining vendor, will continue to support the platform until December 31, 2025.

In a world of survival of the fittest coupled with mutations, something always has to be the last of its kind. And so it is with the “Kittson” Itanium 9700 processors, which Intel quietly released ...