HP shifting last of Itanium engineers to Intel

Neutron

15th December 2004 - 09:08 PM

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. are parting ways on the development of the Itanium chip for server computers, ending a more than 10-year partnership on a project that has produced far less in sales than the companies had hoped, a person briefed on the development said today.

The companies are expected to announce tomorrow that "hundreds" of HP's Itanium engineers located in Colorado will become Intel chattel.

the1physicist

16th December 2004 - 04:08 AM

What a shame. Besides the Dothan, Itanium (Itanic) was intel's only good architecture. If they were smart, they would have sold a cache raped version for the mass market so people would start developing software for it, but then again, its intel we're talking about.

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