The processor marks a significant evolutionary step in Intel's strategy to penetrate the upper echelons of the computing market. But it's still a question whether it will survive the current economy.

The new processor will see a 50 percent increase in speed, a sign that the company's getting snappier at meeting development goals for its high-end chip family. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...

SGI might be building a new high-end Altix system powered by Intel’s upcoming “Nehalem EX” chips, but that doesn’t mean the company is abandoning Itanium, according to SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea. In a ...

Oracle did the right thing this week when it pledged to resume porting its software to Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium-based servers, but it should never have pulled that support from a critical platform as ...

Oracle's decision to stop development of its software for the Itanium platform is viewed by many in the industry as a chance to drive part of the shrinking Unix business to its Sun platform while ...

Microsoft will support only x86 processors with 64-bit extensions when it releases a special version of Windows Server for high performance computing next year, leaving support for Intel’s Itanium 2 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Intel's forthcoming "Montecito" member of the Itanium processor family will consume 100 watts, a significant drop from the 130 watts of current models and an advantage in an era when ...

Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$4 billion to $4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture. An economist that HP plans to call in the case made the ...