Friday, November 14, 2003
Due in 2005, Intel said that its new Itanium 2 microprocessor code-named "Montecito" will have four times more storage capacity than its predecessor and will be able to run several applications at once.
The company has already said Montecito will have two processors on a single piece of silicon, known as "dual core" and have 24 megabytes of cache.
The Itanium chips crunch 64 bits of data at a time compared with the 32 bits at a time processed by Intel's Pentium and Xeon servers.
Intel's Itanium 2 processors, used on high-end servers, are being widely adopted by corporations, in addition to the traditional high-performance computing market typically represented by universities and research labs, said Lisa Graff, director of Itanium 2 worldwide ramp.
There are about 1,000 software applications optimized to run on Itanium 2, she said.
By: DocMemory
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