“[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 ...

The market has never been told that Itanium lives on because HP is paying ... PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job ...

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.

it proved so alluring to server and PC makers that Intel had to adopt and support AMD's x86 extensions instead. The removal of IA-64 support from Linux kernel 6.7 doesn't fully end Itanium support ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...