The details came from a newly-unsealed lawsuit filed by Oracle last year in which it alleged that HP agreed to pay Intel nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars to continue developing Itanium ...

At the same time - demonstrating that it is not abandoning the Itanium platform - the company has also announced new HP Integrity NonStop blade servers based on the freshly released Intel Itanium ...

Johnson said Intel's clarity on the Itanium roadmap meant that "Itanium would remain a core part of HP’s high-end server strategy".

HP's new Integrity NonStop BladeSystem NB54000c ... Even so, the overall market for high-end servers based on Intel Itanium and RISC processors is falling. Analyst firm Gartner in February said ...

In a strange twist of fate, the depreciated Itanium IA-64 architecture is getting a new lease on life, at least sort of.

The nugget indicates that Intel could have beaten AMD to the x86-64 punch if the former wasn't dead-set on the x64-only Itanium line of CPUs. The historical context of this story and the comments ...

IBM introduced dual core Power 4 CPUs in 2000, followed by Sun and HP in 2004 and x86-based Pentiums in 2005. A year later, Intel added dual cores to its Itanium line. In the late 2000s ...