Big Blue has begun selling its first major Itanium server, the four-processor x450, the company plans to announce Wednesday. And a larger sibling is due by the end of the year.

One part of that commitment will appear Jan. 18 when HP brings new top-end Itanium processors to midrange Integrity servers with eight or 16 processor sockets and to its high-end Integrity ...

Oracle and Intel are in a high-stakes spat over the future of Intel’s Itanium chip. Oracle announced last night that it had stopped all development on Intel’s Itanium, a 64-bit heavy-duty ...

Intel's Itanium chip is hanging by a thread, and after more than three years, the company is now shipping the next and possibly final version of the processor, which is code-named Kittson.

While Itanium never did take over the PC and server rackets, it did carve out its niche and it probably paid for itself. Itanium did, however, cause Intel a certain amount of public relations ...

Intel introduced the Itanium chips in 2001 as a way for servers to move to 64-bit operating systems that could handle more than 4GB of RAM while also fighting off competing RISC architectures, but ...

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 ...

Although Itanium was designed to be compatible with apps that run on Intel's Pentium and Xeon processors, the chip must shift into an emulation mode that slows performance to the point where, at ...

Itanium-based Superdomes offer users an opportunity to consolidate multiple Windows servers on a single box, said Marty Paul, a senior systems analyst at Pitney Bowes Inc. in Stamford, Conn.

HP is getting rid of its Itanium workstations, which use the Itanium 2 chip, because of the growing popularity of chips that can run 32-bit and 64-bit software similar to standard Windows and ...

Even Intel can’t dictate the future. In a blog post on Friday, a Microsoft employee explained Microsoft’s plan to phase out support for Intel’s 64-bit Itanium CPU in favor of a 64-bit ...

Intel's Itanium chip is hanging by a thread, and after more than three years, the company is now shipping the next and possibly final version of the processor, which is code-named Kittson.