In the early-to-mid 'nineties, the industry was buzzing with speculation about the 'new' 32-bit computing platform and, more importantly, how it would integrate into the 16-bit environment.

In many ways Itanium represents a change for Intel. Having dominated the desktop PC processor market, the company hopes that its 64-bit silicon will become the de facto choice in the next generation o

Backers still have high hopes for platform.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

We take a look back at the tech products that were so overdone by marketing hype, that by the time they were released, most failed to meet expectations.

Sun UltraSPARC In 1995, eight years after the first SPARC Station was introduced, Sun went 64-bit with the debut of its UltraSPARC I RISC processor; the first model ran at 143MHz and had 128-bi

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

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While 64-bit computing has been around for a while (for the two of you who could afford Intel's Itanium, and now Itanium II processors), the dream of 64-bittery for the humble home system has been a long time coming.

Windows, not chips, the target of Bounds virus.

The next 64-bit processor is codenamed McKinley. This will essentially be an enhanced Itanium running on an Intel 870 chipset, boasting even greater performance through larger amounts of cache and mor

Intel is about to launch its first 64-bit processor, but what will it actually mean for business users? PC Authority investigates. Fourteen years ago the growing popularity of demanding d

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Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

Simpler brand selection for business and consumers, claims chip firm.

Deal would break four-year AMD relationship.

Worldwide server revenues reach US$13bn in Q3 2006.

New CPU platform will bear similarity to Core 2 Duo, but with 2 to 8 cores on board.