The chipmaker's lab tests show that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young OS. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers in database performance, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young ...

Most desktop and laptop computers from the past two decades use 64-bit x86 processors, but older 32-bit x86 CPUs (also known as i386 or i686) are still around. Even though Windows and many Linux ...

Officially, Intel’s Itanium chips and their IA-64 architecture died back in 2021, when the company shipped its last processors. But failed technology often dies a million little deaths. To name just a ...