This month, the software giant plans to begin shipping its second version of Windows server for the Itanium architecture. Following the release of the server this month, Microsoft will ship two 64-bit ...

Perhaps the most controversial mandate to come out of the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger was the decision to pull the post-merger HP out of the CPU business. Compaq’s Alpha and HP’s PA-RISC processors ...

a single 900MHz Itanium 2 with 1.5MB of high-speed cache memory and costs between $3,711 and $5,832. The zx6000 comes with one or two processors, either the 900MHz model or a 1GHz Itanium 2 with 3MB ...

Big vendors aren’t democracies, so when Kevin Armour, the CTO of Paycor Inc., heard last year that Microsoft was ending support for Itanium, he knew he was stuck. “I was a little disappointed,” he ...

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 ...

Microsoft is ending its support for Intel’s Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS, according to a Microsoft blog posting Friday. “Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last ...