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

Intel has quietly changed its roadmap for the next version of its Itanium processor, code named Kittson, throwing into doubt the future of Hewlett-Packard's Integrity and Superdome server lines.

The Oracle filing seeks to delay the start of the trial, now set for Feb. 27, 2012, because the assertion that HP is paying Intel to keep producing Itanium "makes clear that the scope of this case ...

not unlike the Intel Itanium (IA-64) disaster a few decades later. Although the iAPX 432 was a bridge too far by most metrics, it did mean that Intel performed a lot of R&D on advanced features ...

Adding more security and administrative capabilities, XP became available in 64-bit versions for AMD x86 and Intel Itanium CPUs. See Windows XP. Windows 2000 (2000) - MS Version 5.0 Windows 2000 ...

Kottapalli spent 28 years at Intel and worked on various projects, including x86 and Itanium, as well as CPUs and GPUs. More recently, he was responsible for multiple generations of Xeon processors.

These downloads do NOT support Microsoft Windows XP for Intel Itanium processors. Note: Microsoft Windows XP is not supported on 10-gigabit Intel Ethernet Server Adapters. Download the self ...

These downloads do NOT support Microsoft Windows XP for Intel® Itanium® processors. NOTE: Microsoft Windows XP* is not supported on 10-gigabit Intel® Ethernet Server Adapters. Download the self ...

A year later, Intel added dual cores to its Itanium line. In the late 2000s, CPUs with two or more cores gained momentum not only in servers, but in desktop and laptop computers as well.