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HPE wins $3 billion in damages after Oracle withdrew products supporting Itanium

Boyd Chan — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:50:02 +0000

Nearly four years after being found in breach of contract, Oracle has found itself on the receiving end of a $3 billion damages bill after withdrawing software support for HP's Itanium products. Read more...

Intel's Montvale Itanium chip arrives

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:24:09 +0000

Intel announced on Wednesday its line of Itanium products for high-end computing servers. Code-named Montvale, the chip is an update to Montecito, the dual-core Itanium 2 chip that was launched in July last year, Eddie... Read more...

Intel Itanium to skip 45nm

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:37:23 +0000

Intel is planning to skip the 45nm production process altogether with its forthcoming Poulson Itanium processors, jumping from 65nm to 32nm, the chipmaker revealed. The move is not the result of Intel's innovative powers.... Read more...

Intel to launch dual-core Itanium 2 CPUs on July 18

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:39:38 +0000

Intel plans to add its dual-core Itanium 2 CPU line, dubbed "Montecito," to to its current Xeon 5100 series (codenamed Woodcrest) and Dempsey processor offerings on July 18, according to sources at Taiwan server makers.... Read more...

Intel and HP to Spend $10 Billion on Itanium

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:00:00 +0000

Intel and Hewlett Packard's Itanium server processor lines have struggled over the years, with HP being the single company out of the top four server makers building systems around it. However, reports of the... Read more...

Dell Says Goodbye to Itanium

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:53:49 +0000

Poor Itanium. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell is dropping Intel's flagship server processor because customers just aren't interested. Dell is instead moving forward with plans to include EM64T Xeon processors, which are... Read more...

Microsoft unveils focus for Longhorn Itanium

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:47:20 +0000

Microsoft on Friday dribbled out new details of its next Windows Server operating system (OS) release, revealing that the Itanium version would be optimized for three specific workloads -- database, custom applications and line-of-business applications... Read more...

Intel to Roll out new Itanium Chips

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:04:39 +0000

Intel is expected to announce next week what may be the last batch of single-core Itanium processors, CNET News.com has learned. According to a source familiar with Intel's plans, the chipmaking giant... Read more...

Intel misses Itanium sales mark by $26.6bn

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:26:56 +0000

If everything had gone according to plan, sales of Itanium-based servers would have totaled $28bn in 2004. That figure takes into account boom-time spending, flawless execution from Intel and widespread support for the chip. How... Read more...

HP rolls out Itanium 2 servers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:49:23 +0000

Hewlett-Packard hammered home its commitment to the Itanium 2 chips this week, announcing new mid- and high-end members of its Integrity family of servers with the Madison chip, along with new support for OpenVMS 8.2,... Read more...

Intel Reportedly Plans to Release New Itanium 2 in Days

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:03:33 +0000

Intel Corp. will update its Itanium 2 family of multiprocessing units next Monday with the release of a number of new Itanium 2 processors with boosted clock-speeds and enlarged cache sizes accelerating the computing speed... Read more...

HP doubles up Itanium server processors.

Wed, 05 May 2004 21:07:13 +0000

In June, Hewlett-Packard will begin shipping its mx2 technology, code-named Hondo, which lets two Itanium processors be plugged into a single socket, the company said Wednesday. Though Intel builds Itanium, HP helped develop its architecture... Read more...

Intel Updates Itanium 2

Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:44:10 +0000

At its Intel Developer Forum conference in Taipei this week, Intel plans to update its Itanium 2 processor line. The company will introduce two new configurations of the chip, designed for dual-processor servers. A 1.4-GHz... Read more...

Intel Readies Dual-Processor Itanium 2s

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 04:25:30 +0000

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

Intel changes code name of future Itanium

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:31:35 +0000

To avoid a trademark dispute, Intel has changed the code name of Tanglewood, a version of its Itanium expected to come out after 2005 that will contain several processor cores, to Tukwila, an Intel spokesman... Read more...

IBM Itanium servers push higher

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:55:11 +0000

IBM plans to announce on Monday its second Itanium server, a more powerful machine that can accommodate as many as 16 of the high-end processors from Intel. The new x455 is a relative of the... Read more...

MS to intro hardware-linked security for AMD64, Itanium

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:58:40 +0000

Microsoft is to introduce hardware-linked security technology with Windows XP Service Pack 2, and beyond that will make "additions to Windows" supporting the technology, execution protection (NX). The feature is already supported by shipping AMD... Read more...

HP to intro low voltage Itanium II workstation Monday

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:24:54 +0000

AS WE REPORTED earlier this week, Intel will formally introduce its LV (low voltage) Itanium II on the 7th of September. And one of the first off the starting blocks to sell machines using the... Read more...

New Itanium a breakthrough for Intel?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:56:42 +0000

Madison, the third member of the Itanium chip family, is Intel's best shot to date at taking on Sun Microsystems and IBM in the market for high-end server chips. If the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker... Read more...

Slowest Madison Itanium to run at 1.3GHz

Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:54:46 +0000

From C|Net...The slowest of Intel's upcoming "Madison" generation of Itanium 2 processors will run at 1.3GHz, sources close to the company said Tuesday. This version of the processor will come with 3MB of high-speed cache... Read more...

Intel reveals Itanium 2 glitch

Mon, 12 May 2003 19:37:01 +0000

Intel disclosed an electrical problem Monday that can cause computers using its flagship Itanium 2 processor to behave erratically or crash. Customers can sidestep the problem by setting the processor to run... Read more...

Intel makes Itanium an x86 emulator

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:27:45 +0000

In other itanium news... "THERE'S A NEW piece of software coming for the Itanium that seems a bit out of place. It's an x86 emulator. The thing that makes it odd is that... Read more...

Highest ever TPC-C benchmark from Itanium 2

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:24:44 +0000

THE INTEL Itanium has started to pick up some serious speed. Chipzilla is making merry over the fact that an HP Itanium 2 Madison running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and SQL Server 2000 64bit edition... Read more...

SCO ships Linux for Itanium

Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:38:14 +0000

SCO Group, which gained notoriety for a Linux-related lawsuit it filed against IBM last month, released a version of Linux for Intel's Itanium processor family on Tuesday. The Lindon, Utah-based company's product costs $999... Read more...

Intel confirms dual core Itanium ahead

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:17:49 +0000

Sounds fun... one might ask will it be twice as fast? Of course not :) CHIP GIANT INTEL will release a version of the Itanium in 2005 that includes two processors in the... Read more...

Intel overclocks Itanium release date

Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:44:19 +0000

Intel has changed the release schedule for its Itanium chips for servers, adding a new chip for 2004 and moving the launch date of an Itanium with two separate processors to 2005 from 2007. ... Read more...

HP warns of data integrity bug on Itanium processor

Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:00:36 +0000

Close Intel partner Hewlett Packard told its customers over the weekend of a problem with a bug (erratum) on the Itanium processor. Although Intel actually posted the bug details on August 14th, HP... Read more...

Intel: Next Itanium to run at 1.5GHz

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:56:25 +0000

Intel's next Itanium processor likely will run at 1.5GHz, a 50 percent increase from its predecessor and an indication the company is getting better at meeting development goals for its high-end chip family. The new... Read more...

Dell to produce Itanium 2 computers

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:12:08 +0000

Despite being one of the more visible skeptics of Intel's Itanium chip family, Dell Computer will incorporate the Itanium 2 chip into future high-powered computers, a Dell executive said Tuesday. The Round... Read more...

Judge says Intel's Itanium chip infringes patents

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 06:40:03 +0000

U.S. DISTRICT court on Thursday ruled that technology used by Intel in its 64-bit Itanium processors infringes on technology patents held by Intergraph, a ruling that could require Intel to hand over at least $150... Read more...

HP ships Itanium workstations running Red Hat

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:57:14 +0000

The new HP Workstation zx2000 and zx6000 Itanium-based workstations can now be configured with Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation edition in addition to HP's own HP-UX 11i Unix variant, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes. ... Read more...

AMD to target Intel 32-bit, not Itanium, with Opteron

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:11:20 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices Inc will steer clear of established 64-bit computing vendors when its launches its Opteron architecture later this year, and will instead aim its attack squarely at long-time 32-bit rival Intel Corp ... Read more...

Dell to skip Itanium 2 for now

Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:52:27 +0000

A number of server and software manufacturers will tout new products based around Intel's Itanium 2 processor when the chip is released next week, but Dell Computer won't be among them. The... Read more...

Intel To Price Itanium 2 Servers Around $41,000

Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:30:13 +0000

Four-way servers that include Intel's next-generation, 64-bit Itanium 2 processor will sell for about $41,000, Intel says. It's an early indicator of Itanium 2 pricing--still undisclosed--and demonstrates how Intel is counting on the new processor... Read more...

Intel's new Itanium 2 fit and trimmer

Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:51:28 +0000

Itanium 2, Intel's upcoming chip for high-end servers and workstations, has slimmed down. The final version of the chip, which goes on sale in a few weeks, will have a surface area... Read more...

Red Hat releases Linux for Alpha, Itanium

Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:10:01 +0000

Linux vendor Red Hat has released the latest version of its Linux operating system for two 64-bit platforms: Compaq Computer's Alpha and Intel's Itanium. The move brings version 7.2 of the most popular Linux distribution... Read more...

No jackpot yet for Itanium

Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:20:58 +0000

Intel spent nearly 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars to develop Itanium, but the first version of the chip has faced slow sales so far. In the third quarter--the first... Read more...

Oracle throws weight behind Itanium

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 11:33:06 +0000

Oracle has released a version of its database management software designed for Intel's Itanium processor--a move crucial to the chip's success, according to hardware executives and analysts. Itanium-based servers won't take off commercially until... Read more...

Compaq and Intel claims to have fixed Itanium problem

Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:31:34 +0000

The statement said: "Compaq and Intel worked together to resolve the reported issue (sighting). "Compaq expects to introduce its Itanium-based systems shortly. "A BIOS software configuration change was made to... Read more...

Itanium bug halts Compaq shipments

Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:15:01 +0000

CORPORATE USERS wanting to buy Itanium machines are being told that the processors are going through rigorous testing but the INQUIRER can now confirm there is a serious bug with 733MHz and 800MHz versions of... Read more...