HP Hands Itanium Development off to Intel

Intel Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company announced that during this month, the chip maker will take over all further development, the two companies itantium series processors. Although most with the condition not disclosed, Intel will employ HPs Itanium design team, which is located in the United States, Colorado, Fort Collins In addition, HP will invest 3 billion US dollars in research and development, server and system software design, partner-led application solutions, and sales and marketing to promote Intel Itanium 2 Integrity servers, the two companies said. "The agreement further strengthens Intels investment in the Itanium architecture, and to enhance the development of multi-core processors," Intel said in a prepared statement.

But one analyst said the deal is just one more indication that the future Itanium family remains precarious. Despite initialԤʾthe calculated structure of the future, it initially in the late 1990s, the first Itanium chip late, and did not meet the expectation of its customers, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, a research firm in St. Jose California these factors have left the door wide open to AMDs Opteron processor progress has been cited in the market for 64-bit processors.

"[HP] This is a bet - farm moves and they lost the gamble," E nderle). "Only one thing, saving Intel Corp., its size." Second-generation chip, the Itanium 2, some progress has been made in the data center, to date, but Enderle) is still skeptical about its ultimate success, and that it has been downgraded to a transition of the platform. "Itanium is not dead but is no longer the future platform," he said, adding "rather than highway to the future, one of its side Street, most of us will not see."