Intel announced the Itanium 9500, or "Poulson," chips at an event co-hosted with HP in San Francisco last week. The chip is the newest in Intel's product line that targets high-end, mission-critical servers and computers. It replaces the Itanium 9300, or "Tukwila," line, which began shipping in early 2010. The event had a bit more intrigue than most processor news because of HP's lawsuit against Oracle, which concluded earlier this year. Oracle had declared that new versions of its database software would no longer support HP's high-end servers.