[j_tull]

What ever happened to the IA-64 chip that HP ported HPUX to? Is Intel still pursuing it? (I believe was RISC rather than x86).

[HEY4QDEMS]

I think your talking about "Itanium" a processor built in partnership with HP to be introduced in their "Integrity" server line.

I beleive that the processor has been recently released.

[B Knotts]

The Itanic...err...Itanium is currently in its second version. It is not exactly flying off the shelves.

It's not RISC, but is a Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) CPU.

Intel has recently given in, however, to the allure (and likely market success) of AMD's x86-64 approach, and will soon introduce similar affordable 64-bit processors.