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

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 ...

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.

HP, which uses nearly all of Intel's Itanium processors ... but Oracle's shipments fell 31.2 percent during that time. However, Oracle's fourth-quarter revenue dropped only 15.5 percent over ...