Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Working to drive down overall pricing in its high-end, 64-bit Itanium processor line,
Working to drive down overall pricing in its high-end, 64-bit Itanium processor line, Intel has begun shipping a new 1.4GHz version of the processor that the company says will significantly cut down the cost of dual-processor systems.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker said it was shipping the new processor as of Tuesday. The announcement came at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, Taiwan.
"We're getting to about twice the price/performance of RISC," said Jason Waxman, director of multiprocessor marketing at Intel. The first dual-processor Itanium systems, then code-named McKinley, led to systems that were priced at about $18,000 per system, Waxman said.
With the latest, 1.4GHz version, he said, system pricing by OEMs could drop to slightly less than $8,000. The processor price, in 1,000-unit quantities, is set at $1,172.
Next month, Intel said, it will begin shipping a 1.6GHz version of Itanium that will be geared toward technical computing clusters and entry-level, front-end enterprise systems
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker said it was shipping the new processor as of Tuesday. The announcement came at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, Taiwan.
"We're getting to about twice the price/performance of RISC," said Jason Waxman, director of multiprocessor marketing at Intel. The first dual-processor Itanium systems, then code-named McKinley, led to systems that were priced at about $18,000 per system, Waxman said.
With the latest, 1.4GHz version, he said, system pricing by OEMs could drop to slightly less than $8,000. The processor price, in 1,000-unit quantities, is set at $1,172.
Next month, Intel said, it will begin shipping a 1.6GHz version of Itanium that will be geared toward technical computing clusters and entry-level, front-end enterprise systems
By: DocMemory
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