That would have been horrible. Itanium had 2 goals, first kill all the Unix RISC architectures in the workstation and server market and second to lock AMD out of the server and workstation and then PC ...

Along with faster 32-bit Xeon processors, Intel recently announced the “Madison” Itanium 2 processor, its third-generation 64-bit processor. Hewlett-Packard also announced Madison-based servers, ...

Anyone still considering whether to update to 64-bit Linux kernels now has another big motivation after it was revealed 32-bit editions won’t be getting a major security fix. Intel’s Pawan Gupta ...

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