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Intel, the leading manufacturer of processors, plans to ship a quad-core version of its server-oriented Itanium processors. The new processors, which are code-named Tukwila, are expected to become available to vendors later this year, with the first servers built using this chip to arrive in early 2009.The new Tukwil... |
20 May 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Intel's 2 billion transistors Itanium processor, also known as Tukwila, managed to stir up some attention lately, as it's not every day you see a chip packing such amount of transistors. Tukwila is a quad-core part built on the 65-nanometer process node that comes with a huge amount of cache memory.Earlier ... |
21 March 2008
04:44 GMT |
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Intel has just announced its vendors that it will ditch the "Itanium 2" brand, that will be replaced with the more generic "Itanium" name starting with March 2 this year. The move is part of Intel's new branding strategy that also includes the addition of the Intel Montevina platform as Intel Centrino 2."In orde... |
28 February 2008
03:36 GMT |
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Server builder HP has just released its first mid-level Unix-based blade server, the HP Integrity BL870c, powered by a custom-made version of the Itanium processor to power the four-socket server. Estimated at a retail price of $8,000, the blade server will allow the companies to migrate from the old Unix-based techn... |
13 February 2008
09:28 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Intel has announced earlier this week world's first processor to feature two billion transistors on the die. Called "Tukwila", the chip is part of the Itanium family and has a thermal envelope of 170W.The members of Intel's Itanium team yesterday took the floor and came with further juicy ... |
8 February 2008
04:01 GMT |
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HP has made quite a fortune from selling Intel Itanium-powered servers. That is why the company should be worried, as rival IBM predicts that the chip manufacturer will phase the Itanium processor in the near future, as it tends to be less and less competitive on the market."The end of life for Itanium will occur in ... |
10 January 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Intel yesterday rolled out the new Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor 9100 series processors, the sixth generation of Itanium chips.The new CPUs boast a new feature called Core Level Lock-Step that "improves the data integrity and reliability of applications by eliminating undetected errors in the core". This improvem... |
1 November 2007
08:02 GMT |
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The approaching Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.1 will increase integrated Xen virtualization capabilities in systems based on Itanium 2 processors, as announced by the Itanium Solutions Alliance.The Intel Itanium processor allows users to deploy industry-standard software virtualization that enhances the ability ... |
21 September 2007
06:43 GMT |
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HP had some plans to renew some of its blade servers with the new generation of fresh Itanium processors from Intel. But it looks like the bid chip producer did not pay enough attention to the next version of Itanium, codenamed Montvale, as it seems to disappoint from the start. Just about everything is plain wrong w... |
3 August 2007
03:57 GMT |
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For those of you who don't know a thing about Itanium or EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) you can read various articles which detail the design of Itaniums and the impressive revenues brought by the server grade CPU each year (about $3.5 billion). The internal architecture of the Itaniums was dev... |
19 June 2007
08:16 GMT |
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