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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'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]
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 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'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 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 allies make open source move
News In the newest of a series of moves to try to impart momentum to Intel's Itanium processor, allies backing the chip are funding work to improve a key programming tool. Some of the $10bn (£5.8bn) in five years that members of the Itanium Solutions...
[March 13, 2006, 8:05]
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 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 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 dealt Longhorn server blow
News Microsoft's Longhorn Server version of Windows will support Intel's Itanium processor, but only for a limited number of higher-end jobs, the software company said late last week. Intel in recent years has positioned Itanium chiefly as a processor...
[September 6, 2005, 9:25]
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]
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 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 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 2-Based Solutions and the x86 Architecture: Optimizing IT Value by Mixing and Matching Industry-Standard Server Platforms
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.
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Itanium 2: Pricing is key
News Where it comes to Itanium 2, Intel's new high-end server processor, the chipmaker spends a lot of time emphasising the chip's performance. But the company and its partners are hoping that Itanium 2's secret weapon will be its low price.
[July 8, 2002, 14:19]
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]
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 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]
