US Supreme Court tells Oracle to give up on Itanium case
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It will have to pay HPE $3 billion in damages


The US Supreme Court took time out from its busy schedule of trying to turn back the clock on US abortion law to refuse to hear Oracle's appeal to overturn a ruling ordering the IT giant to pay $3 billion in damages.

Intel finally kills Itanium
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End of an error

After 20 years of being a loud resounding yawn in the computer world, Intel has finally put its Itanium product to sleep.

Intel sinks the wreck of the Itanic
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Itanium rusts away by 2021

Chipzill has finally given up on its Itanium 9700-series codenamed Kittson processors.

Itanium servers sing swan-song
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New chip out soon which might be the last

HPE has announced that it will ship the high-end Itanium servers in the second half of the year, and the chip will be supported by HP-UX and OpenVMS.

Oracle told to pay HP $3 billion over Itanium
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The cost of stopping support

A Californian jury has decided that Oracle should not have stopped supporting Itanium and needs to write a cheque to HP for $3 billion for doing so.Needless to say Oracle has said it would appeal the verdict.

Intel downgrades Kittson
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Itanium chugs on and but it will be overweight

Chipzilla has been making mutterings about its much neglected Itanium product, which seem to indicate that it will be downgraded to an elderly process

Won’t move to 22nm

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They should have invested in a boat
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Even if the Xeon is probably better
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Oracle needs to sling its hook