Linux move for Itanium (vnunet)

[Posted March 25, 2004 by cook]

The semiconductor industry must be taking Linux fairly seriously these days, as indicated by this article on Vnunet. "Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has said it is working with Intel to customise the Itanium 64bit chip for an enterprise Linux server, due in 2006. The duo will add features such as instruction-retry now seen only in proprietary high-end Unix systems."