Alliance to promote use of Itanium says quad-core version of chip will come out in early 2009, discloses more than a 30 percent jump in volume growth year to year.

The challenge for Intel is how to migrate Itanium down into all but maybe the $2,000-to-$3,000 price bands," Brookwood said. "A dual-core chip could help them do that." ...

Intel is shipping an updated version of its dual-core Itanium 2 server processor, called Montvale. But don’t expect to see a dramatic improvement in performance from the new chips, despite the ...

When its vaunted Itanium architecture--jointly developed with Hewlett-Packard--debuted in 2001, Intel expected to displace x86 and herald the industry's shift to 64-bit computing. It didn't turn ...

Itanium 2 is intended for use in ultra-high performance servers, where it vies with IBM's Power 5 and Sun Microsystem's UltraSparc 4+ processors, both of which are already dual core. id unit ...

Intel on Tuesday said it has delayed the release of the quad-core Tukwila chip, its next-generation 64-bit Itanium processor designed for use in enterprise servers. The chipmaker will now release ...

Just weeks after rolling out significant updates to its low-end Xeon processor, Intel is expected to focus on the high end with the long-awaited release of a dual-core version of Itanium, code ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Intel plans to cross an important technology threshold midway through the decade by squeezing two Itanium chips onto a single slice of silicon. On higher-end networked server ...