In a strange twist of fate, the depreciated Itanium IA-64 architecture is getting a new lease on life, at least sort of. Phoronix reports that the upcoming GCC 15 compiler for Linux will support ...

Intel on Monday at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco unveiled its latest Itanium-based processor for mission-critical computing, code-named Poulson.

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 ...