Itanium unsuitable for workstations, Intel says
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THE ITANIUM was never really important for the workstation market, Intel has said, causing us to choke over our salty porridge this morning.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. In another change of plans, semiconductor giant Intel has canceled a project to develop a chip for projection T-Vs.
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Intel has updated its heavy-duty Itanium 2 server range to include chips with 9MB of cache and clock speeds of 1.6GHz. The new processors comprise 1.6GHz chips with 9, 6 and 3 MB of L3 cache (two models, with
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Intel ignited a new round of competition with Sun Microsystems and International Business Machines today by announcing plans to bring its most advanced chip-making technology to its Itanium line of business chips for the first time.
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Blog: Everyone's favorite whipping boy, Intel's Itanium server processor, is still on the road map well into the next decade.
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After 10 years in the making and multiple delays, Intel released its state-of-the-art 64-bit Itanium microprocessor on Tuesday. The microprocessor, which is designed for servers and workstations, is based
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Microsoft will support only x86 processors with 64-bit extensions when it releases a special version of Windows Server for high-performance computing next year, leaving support for Intel&#39;s Itanium 2 chip to a later, unspecified date.
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Intel is shipping an updated version of its dual-core Itanium 2 server processor, called Montvale. But don&#39;t expect to see a dramatic improvement in performance from the new chips, despite the addition of several new features.Made using the same 90-nanometer (nm) process technology used to produce the existing Itanium 2 9000 series of processors, Montvale -- formally known as the Itanium 2 9100 series chips -- offers incremental improvements, including a faster front-side bus on some models and features that lower power consumption in certain situations and improve reliability.&quot;Essentially, this is a follow-on product to the current one,&quot; said Eddie Toh, regional platforms marketing manager in Intel Asia-Pacific&#39;s Server Platforms Group.Itanium 2 processors are designed for high-end servers mainly used in specialized applications, such as finance and banking.Some 9100 models run at slightly higher clock speeds than their predecessors but offer the same amount of on-chip cache. For example, the high-end 9150M runs at 1.66GHz, uses a 667MHz front-side bus, and has 24MB of cache, while the older 9050 runs at 1.6GHz, uses a 533MHz front-side bus, and sports 24MB of cache. Both chips will be available for $3,692 in 1,000-unit quantities, a standard pricing method for processors, Intel said.The faster front-side bus and higher clock speeds in the 9100 series still offer respectable performance gains of around 19 percent over the 9000 series, Toh said, citing the results of testing done by Intel. The 9100 models that offer the higher models include an &#39;M&#39; alongside their model numbers to differentiate them from those using the slower 533MHz clock speed, which carry an &#39;N.&#39;The main differences between the 9000 and 9100 series lie in a couple of new features incorporated in the 9100 series. The Core Level Lock Step feature included in the new chips is intended to improve reliability by detecting and eliminating errors in the processor cores, keeping calculation results consistent between different cores -- a reliability feature that already exists for maintaining consistency between processors. Some 9100 models also use a Demand-Based Switching feature that helps lower power consumption when utilization levels are low.The differences between the 9000 and 9100 series are less obvious with models at the lower end of the lineup. For example, the 9120N runs at 1.42GHz, uses a 533MHz front-side bus, and has 12MB of cache; the same as its predecessor, the 9020. The 9120N does not have demand-based switching feature, but the chip does incorporate the Core Level Lock Step feature. The 9120N is priced at $910 in 1,000-unit quantities, Intel said.Beyond Montvale, Intel is working on three future versions of Itanium. Tukwila, which will be manufactured using a 65-nm process and pack four processor cores on a single silicon die, will be released next year, Toh said. Tukwila will be followed by Poulson, a 32nm chip that uses a new processor microarchitecture, and then a chip called Kittson.
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Intel&#39;s biggest customer for its Itanium processor is to stop building workstations built around the chip according to the online edition of the Wall Street Journal.
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Hewlett-Packard Co. has stopped selling workstations based on Intel Corp.&#39;s Itanium 2 microprocessor, a company spokeswoman confirmed today.
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HP and Intel have confirmed earlier reports that located a massive migration of HP Itanium boat people making their way to Intel. True to speculation, Intel has agreed to hire hundreds of HP&#39;s Itanium engineers working at a Ft.
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By Mark Boslet, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 15--Intel ignited a new round of competition with Sun Microsystems and International Business Machines today by announcing plans to bring its most advanced chip-making technology to its Itanium line of business chips for the first time.
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PARIS &amp; PITTSBURGH --(Business Wire)-- Nov. 8, 2004 -- Bull today announce that its range of NovaScale servers will run the latest Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, with a L3 cache up to 9 MB, and the new
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Sun also on life support, apparently Despite HP's healthy rise in Itanium server sales, IBM think its major rival and Intel will have to give up on the processor in the near future due to basic economics.â¦
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Itanium 2 processors, also known as Montvale, are designed for high-end servers mainly used in specialized applications, such as finance and banking.
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An upcoming Microsoft (MSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) software product for clustered servers won&#39;t run on Intel&#39;s (INTC:Nasdaq - news - research) high-end Itanium 2 chip, according to a report first published on News.
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It was obvious that the one-two punch of Opteron and then Intel&#39;s adoption of x86-64 would spell trouble for Itanium, and now HP, the (for all intents and purposes) originator of IA-64, has axed its Itanium 2 workstation line so that they can focus on