The Itanium and Itanium 2 processors are the result of the Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design philosophy, aimed at maximizing performance by using a close software-hardware ...

"We know we had a few delays over the years, but it's better to get this stuff right," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group, introducing five new Itanium processors ...

Phoronix reports that the upcoming GCC 15 compiler for Linux will support Itanium processors. Initially, the plan was to ...

Intel said its roadmap for Itanium is on track with the unveiling of its Itanium-based Poulson processors earlier this year, which Skaugen said doubles the performance of its predecessor Tukwila.

AMD's 64bit Opteron processor will compete head to head with Itanium 2, and although AMD has no real pedigree in servers, the 64bit Opteron is fully compatible with existing 32bit applications.

The resources of the Intel Itanium processor that are visible to the application programmer are collectively called the application programming architecture. The execution environment consists of the ...

HP has filed a civil lawsuit against Oracle for discontinuing software development on Intel's Itanium processor platform. Oracle has branded the lawsuit "malicious and meritless". HP insists that ...

A CPU chip that contains two distinct processing ... A year later, Intel added dual cores to its Itanium line. In the late 2000s, CPUs with two or more cores gained momentum not only in servers ...