Neowin News Feed for: Itanic

64bit Itanic gets 32bit tune-up

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:24:53 +0000

Intel has changed course with regard to 32bit software support on the Itanium processor, saying it now plans to help speed up the code in future versions of the chip. When Itanic first appeared the... Read more...

SGI finds 2,048 uses for an Itanic

Wed, 08 Jan 2003 09:57:32 +0000

If anyone can find a use for an Itanium chip, it ought to be SGI. Although the processor remains stillborn as a commercial computing proposition, the benchmarks are impressive and improving, and SGI's technical computing... Read more...

Intel Itanic slips again

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:58:21 +0000

A REPORT ON news.com indicates that alll is still not well on the McKinley, "Itanium 2" front. The story said that IBM will introduce four way McKinley systems in an X440 form factor in the... Read more...

HP's Mosberger touts Linux for Itanic

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:41:29 +0000

A PDF circulating amongst those HP partners that Carly's Thought Police have failed to stamp out, has senior research scientist David Mosberger going ecstatic over the performance of IA-64 Linux on the company's boxes. ... Read more...

AMD, Sun set to bash the Itanic

Mon, 01 Jul 2002 19:56:50 +0000

Sun effectively anounced its Intel-bashing cheap chip for Web servers, the UltraSparc IIIi last week, by telling EBN all about it. Sun said the part will run at 1.1-1.4GHz, would ship "soon" but not much... Read more...

Intel will can Itanic if boy Hammer does too well

Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:32:29 +0000

We have beleived and have written for maybe two years that Intel is tirelessly working on its own version of X86-64 technology just in case two awful things happen - sales of its Itanic processor... Read more...