Intel is accustomed to receiving torrents of brickbats concerning its 64bit Itanium processor. The unpalatable truth for critics, however, is that this brute-force chip remains set fair to cruise ...

In a strange twist of fate, the depreciated Itanium IA-64 architecture is getting a new lease on life, at least sort of.

As a result, all Itanium processor design work will now be done entirely within Intel, though HP on Wednesday announced it plans to invest more than $3 billion over the next three years to ...