SAN JOSE, Calif. — Intel Corp.'s next-generation Itanium processor, code-named McKinley, has undergone such a performance-enhancing makeover that it has a shot at running at least 50 percent faster ...

Just weeks after rolling out significant updates to its low-end Xeon processor, Intel this week is expected to focus on the high end with the long-awaited release of a dual-core version of Itanium, ...

Today, Intel released its last updates to the Itanium family, the Itanium 9700 series. These new cores, codenamed Kittson, will be the last Itanium processors Intel manufacturers. Kittson is the first ...

Intel Corp. announced several changes yesterday to its road map for server processors, delaying its first dual-core Itanium 2 processor and replacing a future multicore Xeon processor with a new ...

Unless you’re willing to sift through technical minutia and swim through murky marketing hype, you could miss the potential benefits of Intel Corp.’s Itanium processor. Intel has projected a lengthy ...

Intel Corp. is looking to the industry's entrenched OEM base to give its Itanium 2 processor an early leg up in the high-end enterprise server market. But by doing so, some systems makers are putting ...

A low-powered version of Intel's 64-bit processor is still several years off, the company said today. The server chip, formally launched earlier this year, is designed to tackle high-performance tasks ...