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 ...

Second, Itanium and Itanium 2 processors rely on floating-point exceptions to implement completely the floating-point operations defined by the architectural specification. This chapter examines the ...

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.

"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 ...

Itanium is on a two-year beat rate,’ Skaugen ... Intel said its Xeon E3-1200 processor family ranges in price from $189 to $612 in quantities of 1,000. Intel said its E7-8800, E7-4800, E7-2800 ...