Even though Intel's new Itanium chip arrived years late, some of its performance numbers draw qualified praise from industry analysts. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard, one of the most aggressive promoters of Intel's Itanium family of processors, is ditching its line of workstations that use the chips. The decision by the Palo Alto, Calif.-based ...

Unless you’re willing to sift through technical minutia and swim through murky marketing hype, you could miss the potential benefits of Intel Corp.’s Itanium processor. Intel has projected a lengthy ...

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 ...

The Itanium 2 9000 series, formerly code-named Montecito, is the architecture's first dual-core model and will run at 1.4GHz to 1.6GHz with 6 Mbytes to 24Mbytes of onboard L3 cache, Pat Gelsinger, ...

Gartner released predictions recently for Intel’s Itanium Processor Family (IPF) that may prompt some businesses into deploying servers that use the 64-bit Intel technology. The analyst firm changed ...

Intel Corp. last week said the next version of its 64-bit Itanium 2 chip will come with new software designed to improve the performance of 32-bit applications running on Itanium 2 systems. The new ...