Microsoft said it is ending its development support for the Intel Itanium processor after Windows Server 2008 R2, a move which its partners said results from the low incidence of Windows users using ...

A start-up founded by a group of ex-HP executives, including the chief architect behind Itanium, officially debuted Monday and announced plans to ship software this summer that promises to boost the ...

Today, Intel released its last updates to the Itanium family, the Itanium 9700 series. These new cores, codenamed Kittson, will be the last Itanium processors Intel manufacturers. Kittson is the first ...

Perhaps the most controversial mandate to come out of the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger was the decision to pull the post-merger HP out of the CPU business. Compaq’s Alpha and HP’s PA-RISC processors ...

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 ...

It didn't turn out that way. However, Itanium 2, which is the second generation of Intel's Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture, has re-emerged as a healthy competitor in the ...

Hewlett-Packard has announced a multi-year effort to port its Nonstop server systems, used by banks, telcos and other businesses that need maximum reliability, from Intel’s Itanium architecture to x86 ...

Ex-HP executives are behind server software maker Secure64. A start-up founded by a group of former HP executives, including the chief architect behind Itanium, officially took the wraps off itself ...

Intel has announced that it will discontinue the Itanium series of CPUs in 2021. The Itanium 9700 family, codenamed Kittson, is the last generation of Itanium to ship, with quad-core and eight-core ...

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's Itanium can't seem to get a firm toehold anywhere. The Itanium chip family, which Intel has relegated to high-end servers, has rapidly declined on the Top500 Supercomputer list. In November ...

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 ...