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.

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.

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 ...

Itanium did vanquish two rival chip families: Compaq's Alpha and Silicon Graphics' MIPS. It also has respectable performance and is gradually replacing the PA-RISC family from HP, which sold 79 ...

With Itanium, Intel makes a grab for big iron--and offers a compelling vision of the future of both hardware and software. But don't plan on 86-ing your servers just yet; a few things have to ...

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 ...

For Itanium, Microsoft’s move is “bad, but not disastrous, at least for now,” Simpson said. Most Itanium processors are sold in servers running Hewlett-Packard’s Unix variant, HP-UX, he noted.

Poulson also scales back the massively powerful floating-point hardware that (along with RAS) has historically set the Itanium line apart from Intel's x86 chips; this floating-point muscle was an ...

Itanium 2 is not a slam dunk in terms of performance, at least according to published Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) CPU benchmarks. IBM’s latest Power4+ processor has ...

Dell Inc. soon will phase out its remaining computer based on Intel Corp.'s Itanium microprocessor, in another sign of the waning interest in a chip that cost an estimated several billion dollars ...

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.