An open-source developer has stepped in to maintain Itanium IA-64 support with the new GCC 15 compiler, which was initially going to nuke Itanium support.

It's the end of the line for Intel's Itanium chip, a troubled processor family that spawned many product delays and bad blood between HP and Oracle.

The third member of the Itanium chip family is the company's best shot to date at taking on Sun Microsystems and IBM in the market for high-end server chips.

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.

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 ...

The Itanic is finally pulling into port. Intel announced Thursday that it will ship the last version of its notorious Itanium server processor, which it ...

Intel's says its upcoming 64-bit Itanium 2 chip will be twice as fast as the original enabling it to compete with high-end systems from Sun Microsystems and IBM.

Itanium gets short shrift in the press for lousy sales, but Intel’s right when it calls Itanium the architecture for the next 20 years.

Intel has projected a lengthy evolutionary time line for Itanium and is dropping hints that systems built on its first 64-bit CPU, the Itanium that’s available now, will be niche machines.

Intel issued a brief, one-paragraph notice on its Website Jan. 31 announcing that the next version of the Itanium—code-named Kittson and which is still two to three years from being released ...

Intel’s Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead Final “Kittson” processors are drop-in replacements for older chips.

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 ...