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Dell will aid Intel with IA-64
News Dell is to assist the transition to Intel's IA-64 by opening centres for customers porting software to the 64bit architecture. The centres will provide engineers and Intel proof-of-concept, tuning and porting tools for Dell's enterprise customers...
[May 20, 1998, 12:07]
News Burst: Intel gets defensive on IA-64
News In a pre-emptive move against would-be cloners, Intel is attempting to patent the functions of its forthcoming IA-64 architecture. A veteran of patent defence, Intel is abandoning the traditional application route at the US Patent and Trademark...
[October 30, 2000, 14:18]
A Year Ago: Intel and HP to unveil IA-64 instructions
News Intel and Hewlett-Packard are expected to give developers the thumbs up on the IA-64 generation of processors Tuesday when they unveil the instruction set and programmer's guide for the 64-bit architecture.
[May 25, 2000, 7:01]
News Burst: Grove holds forth on IA-64 e-commerce plans
News Former Intel CEO Andy Grove whetted audiences' appetites in anticipation of the IA-64 processor this morning at an uninspired briefing in London's Four Seasons hotel. Grove told attendees that the 64-bit chip will be particularly well-suited for e...
[September 21, 1999, 9:45]
US Report: HP describes plans for first IA-64 chip set
News As it works toward its long-term strategy of transitioning its enterprise systems to IA-64, HP continues to enhance the PA-RISC. At a gathering at its Labs in California, the disclosure was made just outside the original offices of Bill Hewlett and...
[October 13, 1998, 17:27]
Intel makes IA-64 patent move
News Legal analysts said Intel's intent appears to be to block competitors from making products similar to IA-64, which is ultimately intended to replace the x86 architecture upon which most PCs are based today.
[November 2, 2000, 7:00]
Intel and HP to unveil IA-64 instructions
News Merced, the first IA-64 chip from the Intel/H-P collaboration is due for shipment in the middle of next year but both Intel and HP will, over the next few months, drum up support for the architecture among server and corporate desktop manufacturers.
[May 25, 1999, 15:16]
Intel - venture investments to boost IA-64
News In anticipation of IA-64, Intel has made several changes in how it handles investments. Intel partners say the company is preparing an October launch of Itanium, the first member of its IA-64 family. But all IA-64 operating systems still are in...
[April 4, 2000, 11:35]
HP clarifies IA-64 confusion
News HP claimed a report last week from US publisher CNET muddied an announcement from the company in April which advised some of its customers to bypass the Intel/HP Merced IA-64 chipset. The company had said that the likely upgrade path for users of...
[August 25, 1999, 16:00]
Intel's Plans for Virtualization for IA-32 and Intel 64
White Papers The presentation provides an understanding of Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) support for IA-32 CPU virtualization. The presentation shows how that support will be extended in the future.
[November 4, 2006, 0:00]
Merced: Our industry expects...
News Merced represents a totally new direction for the chip maker and some analysts claim IA-64 could surpass the fastest RISC architectures: "We'll get to the point where it competes seriously with the Alpha RISC," said Linley Gwennap, vice president...
[March 17, 1999, 11:00]
Blue chip development fund to boost Merced
News Intel last week detailed a huge sponsorship fund for its next-generation IA-64 processor family. Called the Intel 64 Fund, the scheme is backed by customers as well as computer industry giants and pools about $250m (£152m) to invest in technology...
[May 17, 1999, 7:27]
IBM hedges its bets with Unix for Intel
News It's anyone's guess whether Intel's upcoming super-processors, the 64-bit parts known as IA-64, will begin to make headway against the RISC-based chips that have traditionally dominated the high-end Unix market.
[August 23, 2000, 14:46]
Itanium: Behind Intel's new brand
News The company on Monday revealed that Itanium is the brand name for its first IA-64 processor. However, "We needed to distinguish (Itanium) from the Pentium Xeon family, which is IA-32. Intel will make public at the Microprocessor Forum on Tuesday a...
[October 5, 1999, 11:18]
Microsoft test drives Intel Merced
News Intel has begun calling the line IA-64, to contrast with the Pentium Pro (IA-32). IA stands for Intel Architecture, the firm said. The first product in the IA-64 range will be the chip code-named Merced, but Intel will only commit to a ship date...
[September 23, 1996, 10:47]
The Linux/ia64 Project: Kernel Design and Status Update
White Papers The IA-64 architecture co-developed by HP and Intel is going to reach market in the second half of 2000 with Itanium as its first implementation. This paper describes some of the key system architecture features of IA-64 and the major machine...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Leader: Compaq, Intel and a chip named Alpha...
News Some observers have even gone so far as to suggest that Compaq is betting heavier on Alpha than Intel's tardy IA-64. Merced - the codename for the first IA-64 processor - has already been delayed until mid-2000 and now reports suggest that the chip...
[August 28, 1998, 6:35]
A Year Ago: Intel details 1999 Merced release
News Pre-empting next week's Microprocessor Forum, Intel Corp.today gave a more definitive timetable for the release of its first IA-64 microprocessor, code-named Merced. Intel also said it will discuss next week the road map for the current IA-32...
[October 9, 1998, 6:33]
Intel, HP say Merced will be EPIC
News The acronym stands for the four properties that will make up a big piece of IA-64 -- explicitly parallel instruction computing. A big contributor to the performance of IA-64 processors is overcoming problems with things like parallelism, prediction...
[October 15, 1997, 10:41]
Questions still hang over Alpha future
News Having been touted as Digital's beacon to the future for the last five years, the Alpha processor will take a backseat to Intel's IA-64 architecture and the forthcoming 64-bit chip, code-named Merced, that Intel is developing with Hewlett-Packard Co.
[November 3, 1997, 9:16]
