Still, Intel invested huge sums of money in Itanium only to watch rival Advanced Micro Devices pave an easier path to 64-bit computing with its x86 Opteron processor, ...

The transition disrupted Intel’s vision of Itanium as an architecture of the future for 64-bit servers and PCs. Instead, x86 chips started moving up the stack into more powerful servers.

Itanium was one of the most exotic CPU architectures Intel ever built. Built in conjunction with HP, it was Intel's first 64-bit CPU architecture.

Intel on Thursday started shipping its latest Itanium 9700 chip, code-named Kittson, in volume. It’s the last of the Itanium chips, which first appeared in early 2001.

Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers.

But Intel later in 2003 will try to bridge the gap between Itanium and Xeon with its IA-32 Execution Layer software, which lets an Itanium emulate a Xeon with respectable, if not stunning ...

Itanium and the IA-64 architecture were Intel's first effort to transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing. The first products were server chips—consumer PCs back in the early 2000s were still ...

Today, Intel launched its last Itanium processors. Nearly 20 years after its announcement, the company's EPIC adventure is finally dead.

Intel has released its latest big-number crunching Itanium processors with the 9500 Poulson series as well as detailed its Modular Development Model that will merge future Itanium and Xeon CPUs to ...

Intel said that a four-processor 1GHz Itanium 2 system processed online transactions 50 percent faster than a comparable Sun server with four 1.05GHz UltraSPARC III chips in tests conducted by ...

Intel's next Itanium processor likely will run at 1.5GHz, a 50 percent increase from its predecessor and an indication the company is getting better at meeting development goals for its high-end ...

Intel racked up some serious karmic debt when it schemed to run AMD out of the PC processor business. Xeon now languishes in Opteron’s shadow, which strikes me as just desserts for some nasty ...