Are Intel's main processor rivals in the high-end market, Sun and IBM, right to argue buyers should be wary of Itanium 2? There are four reasons why the 64bit Itanium 2 processor will make a ...

In a strange twist of fate, the depreciated Itanium IA-64 architecture is getting a new lease on life, at least sort of.

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 ...

Intel on Monday at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco unveiled its latest Itanium-based processor for mission-critical computing, code-named Poulson.

The resources of the Intel Itanium processor that are visible to the ... contributes to the high level of software performance achieved by Itanium processor-based computers. Figure 2.1 shows the ...

HP, which uses nearly all of Intel's Itanium processors ... but Oracle's shipments fell 31.2 percent during that time. However, Oracle's fourth-quarter revenue dropped only 15.5 percent over ...

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, but in desktop and laptop computers as well.