Intel hires HP Itanium processor design team
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Intel is to hire HP&#39;s 300-member Itanium processor design team based in Fort Collins, Colorado. This will end HPâs processor development attempts within the company.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle will soon begin certification of its database software to run on Itanium 2 computing processor platforms. Oracle joined with officials of the Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA) in making the announcement Monday at the first ever Itanium Solutions Summit in San Francisco. The move is a further endorsement by Oracle of the beleaguered Itanium processor family which has been slow to gain traction in the server marketplace, though it hasÂ shown some recent momentum. "This seems like an 'attaboy' announcement," said industry analyst Charles King. The Itanium microprocessor family was developed by Intel, of Santa Clara, California, and Hewlett-Packard, of Palo Alto, California, but even with the backing of these tech industry giants, relatively few software programs were initially available to run on Itanium. In announcing Oracle's support, Alliance members said Monday there are now 10,000 software applications from 2,000 independent software vendors certified on the Itanium 2 dual-core processor, code-named "Montecito," the latest iteration of Itanium introduced this summer. When ISA was founded in September 2005, it counted only 5,000 Itanium-compatible applications. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, California, is "reiterating" its support of Itanium with Monday's announcement, said Oracle spokesman Eloy Ontiveros, planning to certify the next major releases of its Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware products across various operating systems. Oracle's decision is "in keeping with our longstanding tradition of presenting customers with many choices in deployment platforms," said Prem Kumar, vice president of the Oracle's Server Technologies division. Of Oracle's support of Itanium, industry analyst Joe Clabby said, "They kind of have to." Oracle is one of the largest of HP's technology partners and HP is the biggest supporter of Itanium, said Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics of Yarmouth, Maine, citing industry reports that as many as 80 percent of the Itanium servers on the market are HP-branded servers. Oracle has made several announcements in recent years about software applications that run on Itanium-powered servers and this is just the latest effort to promote Itanium, said King, president of Pund-IT Research, of Hayward, California. "Now that Montecito has hit the market, Itanium is gaining success among HP users," King said. But he still doesn't see Itanium taking business from its main processor competitors, the Power architecture from IBM Corp., of Armonk, New York, or the Sparc from Sun Microsystems, of Santa Clara, California. However, ISA cited IDC Research data showing Itanium building momentum. Sales of Itanium-based systems generated $740 million in revenue in the second quarter, up 36.4 percent from the year ago quarter. IDC reported in February that the market for Itanium servers may reach $6.6 billion by 2009, up from $2.4 billion in 2005. Other server makers supporting Itanium 2 include Unisys, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, FujitsuÂ of Japan, and Silicon Graphics, of Mountain View, California.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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TechWeb - Under Dick Lampman's direction, HP researchers helped the company enter the digital photography market, invent the architecture behind the Itanium processor, and build software and IT services business.
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HP has stopped selling workstations based on Intel&#39;s Itanium 2 microprocessor, a company spokeswoman confirmed Friday. Citing market conditions, the company ceased selling workstations based on the 64-bit processors on Sept.
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Intel has updated its heavy-duty Itanium 2 server range to include chips with 9MB of cache and clock speeds of 1.6GHz. The new processors comprise 1.6GHz chips with 9, 6 and 3 MB of L3 cache (two models, with
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Intel allies Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have some good and bad news for the chipmaker's Itanium 2 processor family.
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Intel gets latest Itanium into "white box" systems. AMD, meanwhile, isn't willing to concede any ground.
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Intel is shipping an updated version of its dual-core Itanium 2 server processor, called Montvale. But don&#39;t expect to see a dramatic improvement in performance from the new chips, despite the addition of several new features.Made using the same 90-nanometer (nm) process technology used to produce the existing Itanium 2 9000 series of processors, Montvale -- formally known as the Itanium 2 9100 series chips -- offers incremental improvements, including a faster front-side bus on some models and features that lower power consumption in certain situations and improve reliability.&quot;Essentially, this is a follow-on product to the current one,&quot; said Eddie Toh, regional platforms marketing manager in Intel Asia-Pacific&#39;s Server Platforms Group.Itanium 2 processors are designed for high-end servers mainly used in specialized applications, such as finance and banking.Some 9100 models run at slightly higher clock speeds than their predecessors but offer the same amount of on-chip cache. For example, the high-end 9150M runs at 1.66GHz, uses a 667MHz front-side bus, and has 24MB of cache, while the older 9050 runs at 1.6GHz, uses a 533MHz front-side bus, and sports 24MB of cache. Both chips will be available for $3,692 in 1,000-unit quantities, a standard pricing method for processors, Intel said.The faster front-side bus and higher clock speeds in the 9100 series still offer respectable performance gains of around 19 percent over the 9000 series, Toh said, citing the results of testing done by Intel. The 9100 models that offer the higher models include an &#39;M&#39; alongside their model numbers to differentiate them from those using the slower 533MHz clock speed, which carry an &#39;N.&#39;The main differences between the 9000 and 9100 series lie in a couple of new features incorporated in the 9100 series. The Core Level Lock Step feature included in the new chips is intended to improve reliability by detecting and eliminating errors in the processor cores, keeping calculation results consistent between different cores -- a reliability feature that already exists for maintaining consistency between processors. Some 9100 models also use a Demand-Based Switching feature that helps lower power consumption when utilization levels are low.The differences between the 9000 and 9100 series are less obvious with models at the lower end of the lineup. For example, the 9120N runs at 1.42GHz, uses a 533MHz front-side bus, and has 12MB of cache; the same as its predecessor, the 9020. The 9120N does not have demand-based switching feature, but the chip does incorporate the Core Level Lock Step feature. The 9120N is priced at $910 in 1,000-unit quantities, Intel said.Beyond Montvale, Intel is working on three future versions of Itanium. Tukwila, which will be manufactured using a 65-nm process and pack four processor cores on a single silicon die, will be released next year, Toh said. Tukwila will be followed by Poulson, a 32nm chip that uses a new processor microarchitecture, and then a chip called Kittson.
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Two dual-processor models flesh out HP's Itanium-based Integrity line, and new HP-UX boosts software performance.
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PC Magazine - The company is launching a blade server with embedded virtualization software and which can use either Intel's Xeon or Itanium processors.
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The long and sordid story of Intel&#39;s flagship 64-bit CPU, Itanium, took another twist today, and from an unexpected source. Citing poor sales demand, Hewlett-Packard will discontinue sales and development of its own Itanium 2-based workstation line.
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NEC (Nasdaq: NIPNY) has unveiled a blade server powered by the Intel Itanium 2 processor, combining 64-bit computing, InfiniBand capabilities and increased memory, and targeted at the high-performance computing market.
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HP, whose contributions made the Itanium so confoundedly complicated, has dropped out of the 10-year-old partnership with Intel that saw them develop the 64-bit chip.
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Intel has disclosed new technologies that will feature in its chips in the next few years. The firm demonstrated a dual-core version of its Itanium 64bit processor, and announced plans for a new management
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Blog: Everyone's favorite whipping boy, Intel's Itanium server processor, is still on the road map well into the next decade.
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MicrosoftÂ has pulled the plug on a version of Windows XP for Intel's Itanium 2 processor. The move marks the end for Itanium 2 in Windows-based workstations and comes after major hardware vendors abandoned the 64-bit chip for use in workstations.
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Hewlett Packard has decided to discontinue offering desktop workstations based on Intel&#39;s Itanium microprocessor as its customers prefer the extended 64-bit approach.