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Intel's central processing units are making the news again, only this time it is the server line that is getting attention instead of the oft discussed Ivy Bridge series.
Yet again, Digitimes has provided some information that may or may not be completely valid, but chances are it is in this case.
The report... |
24 February 2012
09:07 GMT |
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The whole battle that HP is locked in against Oracle is something of a sore spot for both companies, and the former's CEO, Meg Whitman, had some things to say on the matter.
Meg Whitman recently agreed to an interview with CRN, where she talked about both past and future HP activities.
Among the questions tha... |
4 February 2012
06:39 GMT |
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One wouldn't think that a server processor could cause such a big fuss, but the whole Itanium debacle has gotten very heated, leading to a direct clash between Oracle and HP, the latter having, apparently, gained the upper hand.
This isn't a case of patent infringement, like the quarrel between Samsung an... |
1 February 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Despite all the controversy surrounding the Itanium architecture, Intel still hasn’t canceled its plans for the next-generation Poulson core, which according to a recent report should enter production in the second quarter of 2012.Poulson is Intel's most complex general-purpose processor to date as it feat... |
15 December 2011
20:21 GMT |
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The entire confrontation between Oracle on one side and HP and Intel on the other has not waned, but HP is determined to keep the Itanium going.
In comes project Odyssey, a new development roadmap that will somehow combine the Itanium platform with Intel Xeon processors.
Oracle already said that everything Itaniu... |
24 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Yet again, the Intel Itanium server platform is making the news, this time because Intel is speaking on the implications of HP's recent announcement.
As we mentioned here, HP decided to more or less combine the power of Xeon chips with what Itanium can bring to the table.
In other words, the Odyssey will inc... |
24 November 2011
16:41 GMT |
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HP may be paying Intel to keep making Itanium processors, and is supposed to keep doing so for years, but it might soon come to pass that this isn't a viable marketing tactic anymore.
For those who don't know or remember, Oracle, earlier this year (2011) said it was no longer making new software for Itani... |
23 November 2011
14:11 GMT |
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HP and Oracle have been exchanging barbs over the Itanium server processor platform for months, and the latest, big accusations from Oracle turned out to be true.
Granted, as with any court bashing, each side is doing its best to make its case as big and strong as possible.
Oracle took its turn the other day, say... |
23 November 2011
02:32 GMT |
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Intel may still be speaking of the Itanium and that it plans to keep pushing it forward, but the waves caused by Oracle's decision to drop support for it were far reaching enough that HP's revenues swayed.HP and Oracle ended up taking things to court after the latter said it would no longer support the In... |
20 August 2011
05:36 GMT |
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The Itanium architecture was at the core of a certain dispute a couple of months ago, but whether or not the architecture would go on has been proven beyond doubt now that the Poulson is arriving.Some may remember the rather heated debate, and subsequent court actions, that sprung from Oracle's decision to drop... |
20 August 2011
03:54 GMT |
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In the latest episode of the dispute caused by Oracle dropping the Itanium platform, the lawsuit started by HP has earned the name of “abuse,” not that it has a chance to stop the legal proceedings any time soon.Some time ago, a fairly heated dispute awoke on the enterprise IT segment when Oracle decided... |
1 July 2011
03:58 GMT |
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HP and Oracle have been snapping at each other for months ever since the latter dropped Itanium support, and it looks like the conflict has finally gotten to the point of legal action, started by the former.Users keeping track of the happenings on the server market might know of the tensions between HP and Oracle.Th... |
16 June 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Oracle's and Microsoft decision to drop support for the Itanium processors, have left Intel in a rather difficult position and a recent report comes to suggest that the Santa Clara based company isn't interested in developing this architecture after the release of the Kittson CPU.Intel's main partner i... |
4 May 2011
02:33 GMT |
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With all the effort HP and Intel have been putting into assuring everyone that they aren't dropping the Itanium server platform, one would expect them to deliver some new product or another sooner instead of later, but this might very well not happen.As far as the server market goes, one might say that there ha... |
23 April 2011
02:30 GMT |
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With the mild to serious scandal revolving around Intel's Itanium server platform and oracle's stance on it, any information on the subject is scouted out, and this is precisely what a recent report deals with.The past month has been filled with reports and official notifications on Oracle's HP's... |
18 April 2011
11:12 GMT |
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It appears that Oracle really did step on some toes when it announced that it no longer planned to develop software for Intel's Itanium server platform, enough so that some clients are now demanding that it reconsider.The server market might not usually grab much attention compared to the consumer segment, but ... |
15 April 2011
04:27 GMT |
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Just before this year's Beijing Intel Developers Forum closed its gates, the Santa Clara chip giant held one last keynote which reaffirmed the company's support for the Itanium architecture as well as the Q4 release of the first Xeon E5 processors.During the presentation, Intel admitted that its Xeon proces... |
14 April 2011
15:31 GMT |
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With all the rumble stirred by Oracle's recent decision regarding Intel Itanium server chips, the new Xeon releases may have raised some alarms, but Intel decided to dispel fears by reassuring customers that the former platform is not going away any time soon.Some end-users may be aware of the tensions that aro... |
6 April 2011
09:38 GMT |
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It looks like HP and Oracle are not nearly done dishing it out over how the latter suddenly announced it had stopped making software for the Intel Itanium server processor platform, with the newest episode having HP appealing to Oracle's customers. Users involved in any way with the server industry may have le... |
30 March 2011
07:17 GMT |
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Oracle may have dropped support for a certain Intel server platform not long ago, but anyone worried that the same might happen to the IBM Power and x86 solutions need not fear, according to analysts.Some might know that, not overly long ago, Oracle announced that it was dropping software development for Intel'... |
28 March 2011
04:27 GMT |
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It looks like the recent decision on Oracle's part to cease developing software for the Intel Itanium server platform ended up pushing a few buttons, especially on HP's side of the camp. Questionable decisions on the IT market are definitely not all that uncommon, and it seems the latest one has sparked q... |
25 March 2011
08:25 GMT |
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Users may have heard of how Oracle stopped making software for a certain Intel server platform, and while parties are divided on how to view this turn of events, some analysts think it will be good for the company in the long run.The server industry can be said to have gone through some changes, or at least will exp... |
25 March 2011
04:42 GMT |
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It looks like the recent string of rumors and reports surrounding a certain server platform developed by Intel prompted said company to step up and quell any suspicions that it might drop support for it.
While Intel may draw a large part of its fame from the consumer market, it has many hardware products serving ... |
24 March 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Even though a certain Intel server platform is slowly drifting into obscurity, there are still some that push forward with systems based on it, even though they aren't many, although one might say that size cam make up for the low number.As end-users will probably know, Intel has processing units for pretty muc... |
23 March 2011
11:07 GMT |
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It would appear that even Intel has certain areas where it does not perform well enough to meet its partners standards, to the point where a certain CPU platform has lost Oracle's support.Intel, being the world's greatest supplier of microprocessors, is, naturally, involved in practically every facet of th... |
23 March 2011
10:35 GMT |
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After being forced to skip a generation following a delay with the previous-generation Tukwilla-based chips, Intel's Itanium family of processors will finally get back on track thanks to the new Poulson architecture which will be detailed during the International Solid State Circuits Conference.
Poulson is In... |
21 February 2011
05:24 GMT |
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The Sandy Bridge launch most certainly took its toll on Intel's older LGA 775 and LGA 1156 processors, as the company has just announced that it plans to discontinue a large number of CPUs based on the two sockets, including the entire LGA 775 quad-core processor line.
According to ComputerBase.de, Intel'... |
8 February 2011
10:17 GMT |
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Expected to arrive in the high performance computing market sometime during 2012, Intel's next generation Itanium processor, code-named Poulson is set to be detailed at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in February, 2011.Coming to us via the xbitlabs website, that cites the conference�... |
25 November 2010
06:04 GMT |
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On the consumer front, the proliferation of a certain CPU architecture among personal computers has been, for a long time, dependent on its support for Microsoft's Windows operating system. On the server market, however, the OS, instead of boasting a similar monopoly, has to contend with the quite widespread UNI... |
7 April 2010
02:46 GMT |
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The next major iteration of Windows Server would support exclusively 64-bit (x64) processors, Microsoft revealed, opening up a little bit on the successor of Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows 8 Server, or Windows Server 8, whichever you prefer, will not play nice with 32-bit (x86) CPUs, just as its predecessor, but wil... |
6 April 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Intel, the world's leading manufacturer of computer processors, has begun shipping its much-anticipated, next-generation Itanium server processors, codenamed Tukwilla. This is a major breakthrough for the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker, which has repeatedly delayed the release of these 64-bit chip, due... |
3 February 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel, has recently released a statement informing its partners that its highly anticipated, next generation of Itanium processors will not be launched by the middle of this year. According to the chip maker's statement, an 'opportunity' to further tweak a certain feature ... |
22 May 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Leading chip maker Intel has once again delayed the official release of its high-end server chip, codenamed Tukwilla. According to the Santa Clara, California-based manufacturer, the newly announced delay to a chip that was touted as “the world's first 2 billion transistor microprocessor” is due to s... |
6 February 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Intel, the leading manufacturer of processors, plans to ship a quad-core version of its server-oriented Itanium processors. The new processors, which are code-named Tukwila, are expected to become available to vendors later this year, with the first servers built using this chip to arrive in early 2009.The new Tukwil... |
20 May 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Intel's 2 billion transistors Itanium processor, also known as Tukwila, managed to stir up some attention lately, as it's not every day you see a chip packing such amount of transistors. Tukwila is a quad-core part built on the 65-nanometer process node that comes with a huge amount of cache memory.Earlier ... |
21 March 2008
04:44 GMT |
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Intel has just announced its vendors that it will ditch the "Itanium 2" brand, that will be replaced with the more generic "Itanium" name starting with March 2 this year. The move is part of Intel's new branding strategy that also includes the addition of the Intel Montevina platform as Intel Centrino 2."In orde... |
28 February 2008
03:36 GMT |
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Server builder HP has just released its first mid-level Unix-based blade server, the HP Integrity BL870c, powered by a custom-made version of the Itanium processor to power the four-socket server. Estimated at a retail price of $8,000, the blade server will allow the companies to migrate from the old Unix-based techn... |
13 February 2008
09:28 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Intel has announced earlier this week world's first processor to feature two billion transistors on the die. Called "Tukwila", the chip is part of the Itanium family and has a thermal envelope of 170W.The members of Intel's Itanium team yesterday took the floor and came with further juicy ... |
8 February 2008
04:01 GMT |
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HP has made quite a fortune from selling Intel Itanium-powered servers. That is why the company should be worried, as rival IBM predicts that the chip manufacturer will phase the Itanium processor in the near future, as it tends to be less and less competitive on the market."The end of life for Itanium will occur in ... |
10 January 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Intel yesterday rolled out the new Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor 9100 series processors, the sixth generation of Itanium chips.The new CPUs boast a new feature called Core Level Lock-Step that "improves the data integrity and reliability of applications by eliminating undetected errors in the core". This improvem... |
1 November 2007
08:02 GMT |
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The approaching Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.1 will increase integrated Xen virtualization capabilities in systems based on Itanium 2 processors, as announced by the Itanium Solutions Alliance.The Intel Itanium processor allows users to deploy industry-standard software virtualization that enhances the ability ... |
21 September 2007
06:43 GMT |
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HP had some plans to renew some of its blade servers with the new generation of fresh Itanium processors from Intel. But it looks like the bid chip producer did not pay enough attention to the next version of Itanium, codenamed Montvale, as it seems to disappoint from the start. Just about everything is plain wrong w... |
3 August 2007
03:57 GMT |
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For those of you who don't know a thing about Itanium or EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) you can read various articles which detail the design of Itaniums and the impressive revenues brought by the server grade CPU each year (about $3.5 billion). The internal architecture of the Itaniums was dev... |
19 June 2007
08:16 GMT |
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