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...
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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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
