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. Rory M.

The new processor will see a 50 percent increase in speed, a sign that the company's getting snappier at meeting development goals for its high-end chip family. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

The third member of the Itanium chip family, announced Monday, is the company's best shot to date at taking on Sun and IBM in the market for high-end server processors. Michael Kanellos is editor at ...

Microsoft is ending its support for Intel’s Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS, according to a Microsoft blog posting Friday. “Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last ...

In a keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum 2011 in Beijing on Wednesday, Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, said the chipmaker will launch its ...

Intel plans to announce two new models of its Itanium 2 microchip designed for use in dual-processor systems at its Intel Developer Forum conference in Taiwan next Tuesday, sources close to Intel said ...

In a move to drive down the cost of systems built with its Itanium 2 microprocessor, Intel Corp. plans to make future versions of its Xeon and Itanium processors interchangeable at the socket level, ...

Intel plans to improve the speed of the front-side bus on its high-end Itanium 2 processor next week, in preparation for the launch of its first dual-core Itanium processors, according to sources ...

Intel has again delayed the latest version of its Itanium server chip, codenamed Tukwila, which was originally supposed to appear towards the end of last year. The 65nm processor's release date had ...

NEW YORK--Intel said Wednesday that it has produced samples of Madison, a third version of the Itanium processor, and has booted up "multiple operating systems" on it. Intel President Paul Otellini, ...

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 ...