It will be a slow, drawn-out process, but Microsoft is phasing out its support for Intel’s once-promising Itanium chip. In a blog posting on Friday, Microsoft said that the current version of Windows Server–Windows Server 2008 R2–will be the last one that supports the Itanium. Microsoft also said that its SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010 will be the last version of its database and developer tools that run on the Intel chip. The Itanium 9300, Intel's most recent version of the 64-bit chip. (Credit:Intel) Windows Server senior technical product manager Dan[....]
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It’s been a long time coming, but earlier this week, Intel finally launched “Tukwila,” the latest iteration in its Itanium family of high-end microprocessors. Intel Itanium 9300 die (Credit:Intel) Coming on the same day as IBM introduced both its Power7 chip and the first of an associated line of servers, Tukwila didn’t garner as much attention as it might have otherwise. It’s also true that today’s Itanium is something of a specialty product. But that doesn’t make it irrelevant. Tukwila will be the first Itanium to incorporate Intel’s[....]
There are few, if any, microprocessor manufacturers equal to Intel. IBM, however, is a very large exception. Power7 wafer: Like Intel, IBM manufactures its own processors, something few 'chipmakers' do these days. (Credit:IBM) By the time Intel had introduced its latest processor for servers, the Itanium 9300, on Monday, IBM had already stolen Intel’s thunder with its new Power7 chip technology, announced earlier in the morning. And rightfully so: the Power7 is impressive. It has eight cores, while Intel’s Itanium 9300 (PDF) has four. And each of the Power7′s[....]