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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]
Red Hat Linux arrives for Alpha, Itanium
News Linux vendor Red Hat has released the latest version of its Linux operating system for two 64-bit platforms: Compaq's Alpha and Intel's Itanium. It is also a boost for Intel's Itanium, its first entry into high-end server chips, which has...
[January 9, 2002, 13:20]
Itanium Processor Family Performance Tuning Guide
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to help software developers understand and take advantage of the unique features of the Intel Itanium 2 processor. As a co-developer of the Itanium architecture, and the leading developer of Itanium-based systems, HP...
[May 30, 2004, 1:03]
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 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]
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 delay: Blessing in disguise?
News The most recent Itanium delay may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for software vendors building operating systems for Intel's upcoming 64-bit chip. Intel expects that Itanium customers, corporations needing high-end servers or workstations...
[July 21, 2000, 9:55]
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 gets revamped Linux supercomputer software
News Researchers at the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure have built full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.
[April 11, 2003, 8:07]
Itanium trips up unwary designers
News For most people, Intel's Itanium flagship processor remains a mystery. Itanium has instructions that don't fulfil these requirements, meaning they can't be used in virtual systems - if they're found in a program, the virtualisation manager has to...
[April 7, 2005, 11:00]
Itanium vs UltraSparc: first tests
News Even though Intel's new Itanium chip arrived years late, some of its performance numbers have drawn qualified praise from industry analysts. Two key chip speed measurements using standards set by testing organization Standard Performance Evaluation...
[May 31, 2001, 9:13]
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]
Linux: Itanium's great 64-bit hope?
News Through a strange set of converging circumstances, Linux could end up as the pre-eminent operating system for Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip, due in the second half of this year. Microsoft is holding to the party line that it will have a 64-bit...
[February 17, 2000, 9:34]
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]
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 gives OpenVMS new lease on life
News Hewlett-Packard engineers on Friday got the OpenVMS operating system up and running on an Itanium-based computer, a crucial step to ensuring the venerable OS doesn't suffer the fate of many of its shorter-lived contemporaries.
[February 4, 2003, 7:52]
Itanium's allies get their wallets out
Talkback Its amazing how much PR the marketing gorillas need to do to keep Itanium alive. After 5 years of failed efforts for Itanium to survive, the ISA needed to bet another $10BN. Itanium is flatlining, volumes are decreasing (just ask IDC), roadmaps...
[February 24, 2006, 14:29]
Itanium 2 gets MySQL software
News The company updated the MySQL 4.0 software with the ability to run on the HP-UX 11i Unix operating system and Linux on servers equipped with Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 processor. MySQL also said that its MySQL 4.1 -- the current version of the...
[January 6, 2004, 16:40]
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]
