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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. have ended their partnership to co-develop the Itanium 64-bit processor line, according to a report from Reuters on Wednesday (Dec. 15). The move follows disappointing sales for servers based on the processor, according to the report. Intel and HP developed the processor about 10 years, but the chip has been a flop due to delays, cost overruns and lackluster demand. Under the terms with Intel, HP's Itanium development team, which includes several hundred engineers, will be acquired by Intel and remain in Ft. Collins, Colo., according to the report. "HP will...

SAN JOSE, California, Oct 10, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A federal judge in Texas ruled against chip-making giant Intel Corp. in a long-running dispute with Intergraph Corp. over patents involving the Itanium processor. U.S. District Judge T. John Ward agreed Thursday that Intel's high-performance chip infringed on the patents invented by Huntsville, Alabama-based Intergraph, now a computer services company. In the suit, Intergraph claimed Intel's Itanium processor infringed on two patents related to parallel instruction computing. Intel's total liability is limited to $250 million because of a previous agreement reached as part of another patent fight between...

Intel's Huge Bet Turns IffyBy JOHN MARKOFF and STEVE LOHR OOGLE — the Internet's leading search engine, powered by an arsenal of computers with 15,000 microprocessors — should be a premier customer for Intel's new Itanium 2 super-chip.Itanium, a joint project of Intel and Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Valley's two largest companies, has been in the laboratory for more than a decade. Itanium is designed to excel at a sweeping array of advanced computing tasks, from solving grand scientific challenges to rendering complex graphics to slicing through vast databases. With more than 200 million transistors on each chip, it is designed...