during the hp vs. oracle support lawsuit, court documents unsealed by santa clara county court judge revealed in 2008, hewlett-packard had paid intel corp. around $440 million to keep producing and updating itanium microprocessors from 2009 to 2014. in 2010, the two companies signed another $250 million deal, which obliged intel to continue making itanium central processing units for hp's machines until 2017. under the terms of the agreements, hp has to pay for chips it gets from intel, while intel launches tukwila, poulson, kittson and kittson+ chips in a bid to gradually boost performance of the platform.