Microsoft has more or less jumped ship from Intel's Itanium project. The company says it will keep supporting existing Itanium architecture for the better part of a decade, but Server 2008 R2 will be the last stone in the road. It marks yet another prominent drop-out from the silicon king's years-late project.
It was perhaps one of the most drawn-out, painful launches in Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) long history: the introduction last February of Tukwila, the latest generation of its Itanium 64-bit processor architecture. Not everyone in the Itanium Solutions Alliance hung on for the five-year ride, with Unisys (NYSE: UIS) having been its most prominent drop-out last year, citing competitor HP's (NYSE: HPQ) dominance in the field. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) held on for the entire stretch; but last week, the company announced it would not lend its support to whatever the generation after Tukwila might become.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Windows-and-Intel-Itanium-The-Slow-Divorce-69745.html
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment