Intel began shipping its 64bit Itanium chip almost two years ago ... 64bit mode is generally not much better than that of cheaper Xeon chips. In contrast, IT Week tests showed that the Opteron ...

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

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.

Kottapalli—who previously served as lead engineer for several Itanium and Xeon chips at Intel before becoming chief Xeon architect at the company—provided the update a little more than a month ...

Oracle said it reached the decision to discontinue development on Itanium after “multiple conversations” with Intel senior management. "Intel management made it clear that their ...