Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Intel says its new Itanium 2 server chip will live up to its name by providing twice the performance of the current Itanium. The company on Wednesday released test results for its prototype Itanium 2 ...

Hewlett-Packard, one of the most aggressive promoters of Intel's Itanium family of processors, is ditching its line of workstations that use the chips. The decision by the Palo Alto, Calif.-based ...

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, speaking at ...

The Itanium 2 9000 series, formerly code-named Montecito, is the architecture's first dual-core model and will run at 1.4GHz to 1.6GHz with 6 Mbytes to 24Mbytes of onboard L3 cache, Pat Gelsinger, ...

Intel, perhaps in reaction to AMD’s release of the 32/64-bit Opteron processor, said it plans to run 32-bit applications faster on future Itanium processors and ease users’ migration to the 64-bit ...

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 Corp. and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released software designed to improve the performance of Windows applications designed for 32-bit processors when they are running on Intel’s 64-bit Itanium ...

Intel will start shipping a quad-core version of its Itanium processor to system vendors in about six months, with the first servers based on the chip due in early 2009, Intel said Monday. Intel said ...

The next-generation Itanium chip will now be released in first quarter of 2010 as Intel adds application scalability enhancements After multiple delays, Intel on Thursday once again pushed back the ...

Intel Corp. last week said the next version of its 64-bit Itanium 2 chip will come with new software designed to improve the performance of 32-bit applications running on Itanium 2 systems. The new ...