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.

Intel’s Itanium chip is hanging by a thread, and after more than three years, the company is now shipping the next and possibly final version of the processor, which is code-named Kittson. The chip is ...

Intel allies Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have some good and bad news for the chipmaker's Itanium 2 processor family. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Intel’s Itanium has an uncertain future, but Hewlett Packard Enterprise is committed to an upcoming chip, code-named Kittson, that is the next step in the venerable chip line. This could be good news ...

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 ...

At long last, Intel has released its long-awaited itanium 64-bit processor to the masses. The major questions that remain are where—and even whether—the Itanium fits into todays corporate networks.

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 ...