Intel, perhaps in reaction to AMD’s release of the 32/64-bit Opteron processor, said it plans to run 32-bit applications faster on future Itanium processors and ease users’ migration to the 64-bit ...

The Itanium 2 9000 series, formerly code-named Montecito, is the architecture's first dual-core model and will run at 1.4GHz to 1.6GHz with 6 Mbytes to 24Mbytes of onboard L3 cache, Pat Gelsinger, ...

Windows Server 2003 could be the impetus Intel’s Itanium servers need to compete against their enterprise Unix counterparts. At the launch event for Microsoft’s newest operating system last week, a ...

The next version, code-named McKinley, will be as much as two times faster when it comes out in test systems later this year. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...

The compiler will enable emulation of the 32-bit software over the Itanium platform and, with the tools Intel is making available, will give applications on the 64-bit platform performance equal to ...

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released software designed to improve the performance of Windows applications designed for 32-bit processors when they are running on Intel’s 64-bit Itanium ...