The company will release software later this year designed to dramatically improve how well its Itanium chips run programs written for its Pentium or Xeon processors. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

At long last, Intel will lift the veil of silence from its Itanium chip, setting off a new round of competition in the market for servers and advanced workstation PCs. Intel on Tuesday will announce ...

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 computing ...

Slated to go on sale in a few weeks, the upcoming chip for high-end servers and workstations will be about 10 percent smaller than originally planned. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

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 version of the ...

Underscoring strong momentum and industry support, Intel Corporation today unveiled Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor 9100 series processors. Built for managing high-end applications and armed with ...

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It’s pretty clear that many IT organizations are dubious of Oracle’s motives. Intel and Hewlett-Packard collectively thumbed their noses at Oracle today with the introduction of new high-end HP ...

Intel says its new Itanium 2 server chip will live up to its name by providing twice the performance of the current Itanium. The company on Wednesday released test results for its prototype Itanium 2 ...

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 Corp. is looking to the industry's entrenched OEM base to give its Itanium 2 processor an early leg up in the high-end enterprise server market. But by doing so, some systems makers are putting ...