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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, Calif. (AP) - Intel Corp. has reached an agreement to hire hundreds of Hewlett-Packard Co. engineers who helped design the Itanium microprocessor, a massive joint project between the two technology companies since the early 1990s. 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 continue its commitment to the chip. The HP team, which is based in Fort Collins, Colo., will not have to relocate, said Intel spokesman Robert Manetta. Other terms of...

Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet--and it was built by a company with about as many employees as a real estate office. California Digital, a 55-person company located on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, created Thunder from 1,024 four-processor Itanium 2 servers to perform a variety of tasks at the lab. Capable of churning 19.94 trillion operations per second, it would have ranked second in the Top 500 list of supercomputers published bi-annually by the University of Mannheim, the University of Tennessee and Lawrence Berkeley National...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is once again delaying the shipment of a long-awaited microprocessor chip that is vital to its competition with Intel Corp., Monday's Wall Street Journal reported. The chip, part of a new family that has carried the code name Hammer, was originally expected to be available in personal computers at the end of 2002 or early in the first quarter of this year. In September, however, AMD reset the delivery date to late in the first quarter or early in the second period. Friday, AMD said PCs based on the chip, formally called the Athlon 64,...

Itanium and Opteron contrasted Letter What are the options for Intel? By The Letternan: Saturday 09 November 2002, 10:04 THE COMPARISON SPECS on Itanium 3 and Opteron here look pretty good. This appears to show both processors passing the current fastest server chip by a significant lead. However, for x86 code, Opteron looks like it will hit the market as fast as the fastest x86 processor while Itanium 3 is a joke on x86 code. It is too bad that there are not specs available on Yamhill because I have a very strong suspicion that it was killed, not because...

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...

<p>It's in the air, big changes are afoot. Yeah, tech stocks remain in the toilet, but underdog companies and technologies are beginning to make significant inroads, and the established superpowers are feeling less secure every day. Is this news? Not really, because it's been happening slowly over time, and certainly many ET readers have been closely following and even promoting these changes. Big power shifts are underway. The signs have been subtle and cumulative, but the one that put me over the top was IBM's recent national TV ad pushing their enterprise Linux solutions in a big way (more fervently than any past IBM ads I can remember).</p>

AMD's new chip can help it gain on Intel--Barron's Last Updated: August 04, 2002 02:49 PM ET NEW YORK, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD.N is hailed as having the "next big thing" with its upcoming eighth-generation microprocessor, and this could make the depressed stock a long-term winner, Barron's said. The Aug. 5 edition of the Wall Street financial weekly cites Fred Hick, publisher of the newsletter High-Tech Strategist, as saying AMD's next line of microprocessors, code-named Hammer, can give AMD a multiyear lead on arch-rival Intel Corp. INTC.O . AMD's edge could lie in the move...

AMD confirms IBM DB2 Hammer support Corporate migration easier, says IBM By Mike Magee: Tuesday 30 July 2002, 20:58 IBM'S DB2 DATABASE for Linux will be supported on AMD's Opteron (Hammer) processors, confirming benchmarks posted on c't magazine a few weeks back. AMD confirmed the story in a release which said a DB2 database using SuSE Linux was successfully ported to X86-64 technology in just a few days. The news is good for AMD and indicates positiive application software support for its Opteron servers, due to be launched next year. The chip firm said that using X86-64 architecture will mean...

Linus Torvalds prays Intel will adopt Yamhill And so adopt AMD's X86-64 By INQUIRER staff: Monday 29 July 2002, 11:26 A POSTING BY Linus Torvalds on the LINUX KERNEL newsgroup yesterday has him praying that Intel will adopt its secret "Yamhill" project and turn to the ways of X86-64 righteousness. Torvalds, who had a key part to play in Transmeta's fortunes at startup, says in the post that Linux developers are "generally praying that AMD's X86-64 succeeds in the market." That, he says, would force Intel to make Yamhill its standard 64-bit platform and allow for improvements in the Linux...

Why the Buzz on Hammer Just Won't QuitJust in case you haven't been paying attention, AMD's upcoming 8th generation processor has been generating a steady buzz of discussion almost since the first of the year.  This has led to an occasional outburst of exasperation from editors at various websites, some of whom have complained the web community in general is too focused upon Hammer.  Hammer is, their argument goes, an unproven product with a distant and uncertain launch date, and should not be focused on so heavily.  It's also been suggested by some that much of the Hammer hype itself...

No systems spotted on the horizon By Paul Hales: Tuesday 09 July 2002, 12:58 INTEL YESTERDAY TRUMPETED the launch of its new high-end server ship (Oops...) and said that a whole gang of systems makers were lining up to build nice, robust server boxes based on the fantastic new Itanium 2. So where are they? Well, apart from the "New HP", which has embraced the announcement whole-heartedly and even produced a cheesy little a cartoon here on its corporate propaganda pages, (we don't recommend it) to herald the new age of IT2, other "partners" have been conspicuously quiet amidst the...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- If at first you don't succeed, bring out Itanium 2. That is what Intel Corp. (INTC) will do on Monday to rising expectations that this new top-of-the-line chip will do what its predecessor couldn't: compete for the most demanding of corporate computing jobs. That will mean taking on the titans of high-tech computing, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), all of whom make the powerful Unix servers companies rely on for their internal business systems. Intel is expected to unveiled three Itanium 2 chips, and computer makers such...