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Intel’s Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead

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Remember Itanium? Intel’s first crack at 64-bit server processors from circa the turn of the millennium? Well, two things: Intel is releasing four new 9700-series Itanium CPUs based on the “Kittson” architecture, and the chips are the last new Itanium processors that the company plans to ship.

An Intel spokesperson confirmed to PC World that this was the end of the line for Itanium, which jibes with an agreement under which HP would pay Intel to continue developing Itanium chips through the end of 2017. Absent some kind of extension to that agreement, it’s unlikely that anyone else is interested in keeping Itanium alive at this point. IT World reports that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is the only vendor expected to ship servers that use the new CPUs.

Kittson chips offer either four or eight CPU cores manufactured on Intel’s circa-2010 32nm process, the same one used for the very first Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs. All the Kittson chips support Hyperthreading and ECC DDR3. The quad-core chips sport a 130W TDP, while the octo-core versions have 170W TDPs.

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Once again, you can decrypt your CryptXXX ransomware files for free

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Cryptxxx thumb

Ransomware authors are human. They make mistakes.

And their mistakes mean that you might be able to recover your encrypted data.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Under the Din of the Presidential Race Lies a Once and Future Threat: Cyberwarfare – New York Times

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New York Times

Under the Din of the Presidential Race Lies a Once and Future Threat: Cyberwarfare
New York Times
That is still a risk, of course — one that the Pentagon and its United States Cyber Command spend billions of dollars trying to deter. Yet America's main adversaries know those steps would constitute an act of war, most likely prompting an …

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Under the Din of the Presidential Race Lies a Once and Future … – New York Times

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New York Times

Under the Din of the Presidential Race Lies a Once and Future …
New York Times
A defining marker of the 2016 presidential race is that it is the first time a foreign power used cyberweapons to influence an election in the United States.

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