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 ...

"We know we had a few delays over the years, but it's better to get this stuff right," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group, introducing five new Itanium processors ...

The news does not look good: you can't get the Alpha and Itanium versions any more, only a limited x86-64 edition. OpenVMS is one of the granddaddies of big serious OSes. A direct descendant of ...

Are Intel's main processor rivals in the high-end market, Sun and IBM, right to argue buyers should be wary of Itanium 2? There are four reasons why the 64bit Itanium 2 processor will make a ...