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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Intel on Monday at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco unveiled its latest Itanium-based processor for mission-critical computing, code-named Poulson. Rory M.

Intel launched its “Montecito” dual-core Itanium chip on Tuesday, in an effort to improve its third-place position in the high-end server market. The Dual-Core Itanium 2 design is the first to bring ...

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 ...

"We know we had a few delays over the years, but it's better to get this stuff right," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group, introducing five new Itanium processors for ...

NEW YORK--Intel said Wednesday that it has produced samples of Madison, a third version of the Itanium processor, and has booted up "multiple operating systems" on it. Intel President Paul Otellini, ...

Intel officials on Wednesday will tout intentions to enable Java to run on the company’s 64-bit Itanium processor, but Sun Microsystems, for its part, is not set to build any hardware that would ...

After 20 years of being a loud resounding yawn in the computer world, Intel has finally put its Itanium product to sleep. The company stopped shipping its Itanium processors last week after keeping it ...