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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 officials said they liked the solid metal imagery that...
[October 5, 1999, 11:18]
Which is right for you - Itanium® 2 or x86 Architecture?
White Papers With the growing market success of Itanium® 2-based solutions and the integration of 64-bit extensions into x86-based processors, organizations now have a choice of two widely supported, industry-standard, 64-bit architectures.
[January 25, 2007, 11:16]
Itanium 2 on the way, but will it sell?
News The Itanium 2 processor marks a significant step in Intel's strategy to penetrate the upper echelons of the computing market. On the other hand, Dell is still debating whether to release Itanium 2 machines, while Microsoft has yet to release a...
[July 8, 2002, 13:36]
Itanium 2 to lift off at two speeds
News Intel's upcoming Itanium 2 processor will come out at 900MHz and 1GHz, according to sources, and cost about the same as existing Itanium chips. Current Itanium processors sell for between $1,177 and $4,227.
[July 3, 2002, 7:52]
Court: Itanium infringes patents
News A federal court ruled on Thursday that Intel's Itanium processor violates patents owned by Intergraph and ordered Intel to pay $150m (£96m) in damages. Huntsville, Alabama-based Intergraph, once a close ally of Intel's in the workstation market...
[October 11, 2002, 7:40]
Itanium shipments begin to slip
News Servers incorporating Intel's Itanium processor may hit the market at a more gradual pace than earlier anticipated, according to the company. In a keynote address yesterday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, Mike Fister, general manager of...
[March 2, 2001, 7:50]
Itanium seen continuing to trail rivals
News Sales of servers based around Intel's Itanium chips will grow, but they will still lag behind today's established leaders five years from now, according to research firm Gartner. By 2007, yearly revenue from servers running Itanium processors, a 64...
[August 30, 2002, 8:05]
Itanium's friends get together to push adoption
Talkback The Itanium processor is Intel effort to yet again enforce their will for their own gain I would like to add on the computing world. Three cheers for AMD and there efforts to give the customer what they really want; instead of forcing us into a...
[September 2, 2005, 0:10]
Itanium gets scaled down and pushed back
News Intel has delayed by months the release of the next three major versions of the Itanium processor, a new blow for the processor family. The Itanium delay "is generally bad news", and competitors are likely to pounce on it, said Illuminata analyst...
[October 25, 2005, 9:40]
Itanium suffers setback despite server progress
News Intel allies Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have some good and bad news for the chipmaker's Itanium 2 processor family. HP is due to bring the fastest Itanium 2 processor so far to its higher-end server models on 18 January, sources familiar with...
[January 6, 2005, 8:00]
Itanium's allies get their wallets out
News Intel, HP and seven other server companies will spend $10bn between now and the end of 2010 to try to increase adoption of the Itanium processor. The money is coming from Intel and HP - Itanium's co-developers and top backers - as well as from...
[January 27, 2006, 9:00]
IDF: Itanium line to grow over next three years
News Intel is planning one new processor a year for three years in its Itanium-based 64-bit series, said Lisa Hambrick, director of Enterprise Processor Marketing at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco.
[February 28, 2002, 8:57]
Itanium 2 shrinks to fit
News Itanium 2, Intel's upcoming chip for high-end servers and workstations, has slimmed down. Itanium 2, which once went by the code-name McKinley, is perhaps Intel's most crucial product release this year.
[June 12, 2002, 14:03]
Itanium pilot programme takes off
News Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip is slowly making its way to the market. However, the Itanium chips are expected to compare in price with the current generation of large-cache Xeon chips from Intel, which cost between about $1,700 and $3,500.
[November 22, 2000, 12:25]
Itanium slips further into trouble
Leader The pudding hour draws ever closer for Itanium's disciples. But it's hard to see Itanium's roadmap alternations in such a good light. Running at more than 2GHz with a super-fast bus and advanced power management, this dual-core scamp would put...
[October 25, 2005, 14:55]
News Roundup: Itanium's big day
News Itanium, Intel's big move into the 64-bit world of high-end servers, gets its official launch this week, after several delays. Itanium begins 64bit move Monday 28th May Sound the fanfare: Could Intel's long-anticipated Itanium be an IT cost saviour?
[May 29, 2001, 12:48]
Itanium shown off at LinuxWorld
News Several vendors are displaying early versions of Intel's first 64-bit processor, Itanium, at LinuxWorld this week. Itanium, the first chip based on the IA-64 platform, is to compete against high-end server chips such as the Alpha from Compaq.
[August 17, 2000, 10:29]
Itanium dealt another blow
News IBM is not only discontinuing support for Intel's Itanium processor in a new generation of server technology, it's going a step further, dropping Itanium servers from the product line altogether, sources familiar with the situation said.
[February 28, 2005, 8:05]
Itanium schedule slides
News Plans for Intel's super-powered Itanium chip, based on the new IA-64 architecture, have been delayed while Intel fine-tunes the new processor. Intel had expected to begin making revenues on Itanium, which is aimed at servers and workstations, in...
[July 19, 2000, 10:23]
Itanium failing Compaq server tests
News Intel's Itanium processor is failing to pass Compaq Computer's stress tests, according to a Compaq representative, thus holding up the release of Compaq's Itanium servers. A Compaq representative said that the company has experienced "sightings...
[November 15, 2001, 8:38]
