Allies pledge $10 billion to boost Itanium | CNET News.com

Intel, Hewlett-Packard and seven other server companies (Unisys, Silicon Graphics Inc., NEC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens and Groupe Bull.) will spend $10 billion through 2010 to try to increase adoption of the Itanium processor.

And the kicker…

“Itanium has been taking share from both IBM power and Sun Sparc. We’re on the right trajectory, but we want to go faster,” Tom Kilroy, general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, said at a press event here.