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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, Itanium was designed to deal with three critical issues: long-term memory performance, integrity and server performance. These factors must all be balanced carefully for enterprise ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HP (NYSE:HPQ) today reiterated that it will continue the development and innovation of Itanium®-based Integrity server platforms with its HP-UX operating system ...

If you’re scratching your head about our decision to evaluate G5 (PowerPC 970FX) and Opteron in one story, you’re not alone. This story was originally scheduled to pit Opteron against Itanium 2, but ...

Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last version of Windows Server to support the Itanium architecture. This comes only 3 months after Red Hat announced that RHEL 6 will ...