The big picture: The x86-64 instruction set was initially announced by AMD in 1999, providing a significant upgrade to the leading PC computing architecture. The technology proved highly successful, ...

That would have been horrible. Itanium had 2 goals, first kill all the Unix RISC architectures in the workstation and server market and second to lock AMD out of the server and workstation and then PC ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Intel's Itanium can't seem to get a firm toehold ...

December 1, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan Compute Comments Off on The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform ...

Just as we’ve seen some interesting new CPU ideas coming out of China, some of which are clearly intended to chase Intel at least in the long term, the old guard is shipping the last examples of its ...

Bottom line: Since its release in 2001, Itanium has eaten away at billions of dollars with almost nothing to show for it. Intel's sole sales partner, HP Enterprise, has one last chance to order more ...

If you’re still using Intel’s Itanium processors, you’d better get your orders in soon. Intel has announced that it will fulfill the final shipment of Itanium 9700 processors on July 29, 2021. The ...

Microsoft is ending its support for Intel’s Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS, according to a Microsoft blog posting Friday. “Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last ...

Intel will start shipping a quad-core version of its Itanium processor to system vendors in about six months, with the first servers based on the chip due in early 2009, Intel said Monday. Intel said ...

In spite of product delays, developer defections and a shrinking market, Intel's Itanium continues to gain share in the high-performance computing segment. Itanium, Intel's high-performance server ...

Dell is phasing out Intel Itanium-based servers, a move by one of the chipmaker's closest allies that reflects Dell's emphasis on low-cost servers and the processor's failure to spread into the ...