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Itanium was once meant to be the next step in computing, to compete with the likes of IBM, Sun and DEC, but also for Intel to have an architecture that couldn’t be taken from it, as the PC was from ...

The big picture: The x86-64 instruction set was initially announced by AMD in 1999, providing a significant upgrade to the leading PC computing architecture. The technology proved highly successful, ...

2024 is off to a roaring start in the open-source world with the release of the Linux 6.7 kernel. It took just a bit longer than usual for Linux 6.7 to be released, thanks in part to the fact that ...

It’s the start of something new for Intel: the Core Ultra era. With the launch of new Meteor Lake processors, Intel is ditching its old naming scheme for something new. Intel CPU names are going to ...

That would have been horrible. Itanium had 2 goals, first kill all the Unix RISC architectures in the workstation and server market and second to lock AMD out of the server and workstation and then PC ...

Intel has announced that it will discontinue the Itanium series of CPUs in 2021. The Itanium 9700 family, codenamed Kittson, is the last generation of Itanium to ship, with quad-core and eight-core ...

Last week Intel revealed the new 9500-series (Poulson) Itanium processors that finally replace the previous generation 9300-series Tukwila CPUs which were released nearly three years ago. The ...

It’s a whale of a chip. Intel is announcing today the 10th generation of its Itanium chip, which is a 64-bit microprocessor aimed at the very high end of the corporate computer market. The chip is a ...

Even Intel can’t dictate the future. In a blog post on Friday, a Microsoft employee explained Microsoft’s plan to phase out support for Intel’s 64-bit Itanium CPU in favor of a 64-bit version of the ...

Intel on Tuesday said it has delayed the release of the quad-core Tukwila chip, its next-generation 64-bit Itanium processor designed for use in enterprise servers. The chip maker will now release ...

Intel officials on Wednesday will tout intentions to enable Java to run on the company’s 64-bit Itanium processor, but Sun Microsystems, for its part, is not set to build any hardware that would ...