Intel updates Itanium 2 line
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Intel on Monday updated its Itanium 2 processors, adding a top-end model to a high-end family designed to displace chips from Sun Microsystems and IBM.
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Promoting its "Montecito" processor, Intel will sell "white box" systems that can be emblazoned with other computer makers' logos. Photos: New Itanium servers
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Intel today announced a faster Pentium 4 of its high-end Extreme Edition (EE) series as well as an updated PCI Express chipset now supporting FSB1066.
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Intel has slashed prices across the board as it prepares to get behind new processor lines due this autumn. The Itanium server line has seen cuts of over 30 per cent, while prices for Intel&#39;s fastest business
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The high-performance computer's next edition will be revamped to run Intel's dual-core Itanium chips.
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Intel is at work on a $2 billion upgrade to one of its two Arizona factories, as the world's largest chip maker attempts to safeguard its lead in manufacturing from resurgent rivals and put recent costly missteps behind it.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-PackardÂ is launching two servers using Intel's new dual-core Itanium chip in a bid to gain market traction for the troubled Itanium line. HP's Integrity rx3660 server, with a base price of $10,531, and rx6600 server, which starts at $14,771, will be introduced Thursday and feature Intel's Itanium 2 "Montecito" processor. IntelÂ introduced that processorÂ in July. HP is also offering a Montecito upgrade throughout its existing Integrity line. The industry is watching to see if Montecito will improve Itanium's competitive position against IBM's Power 5 chip architecture and Sun Microsystems' Sparc. It also remains to be seen how many server vendors beyond HP will embrace Itanium. "I would describe this as a marathon," said Don Jenkins, vice president of marketing for the Business Critical Server Division of HP, in Palo Alto, California. "It takes a long time to establish a new architecture in the market. It took IBM a long time to establish Power." HP introduced its first Itanium server in 2001. But by the end of 2005, servers based on the processor accounted for less than 1 percent of the market, based on units shipped, according to research firm Gartner, and 85 percent of them were sold by HP. But by another measure, Itanium is growing. Today, close to 9,000 software applications run on Itanium, said Jenkins, up from about 100 in 2003, which gives Integrity broader appeal to enterprise customers. "Customers can't use the server until they have the applications and the application vendors don't want to invest in the applications on that chip until they see the demand for it," he said. Several important software vendors also announced Thursday their support of Integrity running Montecito, including BEA Systems, RSA Security, and Comverse Technology. "HP has been steadily adding to the Itanium portfolio," said Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata. But few other server vendors are following HP's support of Itanium, Haff added. Fujitsu Ltd. announced in August it will introduce a server running Montecito, as did Silicon Graphics. But they are "small players" relative to vendors like Dell, Sun, and IBM, which are not using Itanium. Still, Haff said, Montecito "is a nice upgrade to the Itanium." Integrity is HP's high-end server for business-critical applications. Montecito is the first Itanium design to offer hyperthreading, virtualization and multiple cores, which increase Integrity's performance. The Integrity rx6600 running Montecito performs close to 350,000 transactions per minute (tmp), more than twice the 161,000 tmp of an Integrity running an older version of Itanium, according to tests by the independentÂ Transaction Processing Performance Council. Montecito is also more cost efficient, operating at $2.24 per transaction minute, versus $3.94 on a previous Itanium chip. But skepticism remains. "$2.24 is good but they're still not the most powerful system," said John Clabby, president of the IT research firm Clabby Analytics. "Montecito is an improvement, but it's not a leader and that's what Itanium was supposed to be." The fastest processor tested by TPC is an IBM Power 5. which topped 4 million transactions per minute a with a cost per minute of $2.97, noted Clabby. HP's Jenkins downplays the significance of IBM's performance numbers, noting that most enterprises only need servers that can perform 150,000 to 300,000 transactions per minute. "Four million is a benchmark that doesn't have any relevance other than bragging rights," Jenkins said.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp.'s decision to begin shipping versions of x86 processors that are capable of 64-bit computing has slowed down the adoption of the company's high-end Itanium processors, a senior executive acknowledged Tuesday during a question and answer session at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco.
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The upgrade enables the chip to also connect to less common 802.11a and 802.11i versions of Wi-Fi. SAN FRANCISCO: Intel Corp. said it has upgraded the wireless networking capabilities of its Centrino line
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CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday updated its iMac line with Intel Corp.'s latest microprocessors.
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Intel is taking over the team of 300 designers who work on Itanium chips for use in HP servers. An official announcement from the companies is expected Thursday, according to a person familiar with the plans.
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Hewlett-Packard is getting out of the chip-making business. The Palo Alto, California, company on Thursday announced that it reached an agreement with Intel that would see HP&#39;s Itanium processor design team move to Intel in January.
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Ziff Davis - The company this week will unveil more programs and technologies designed to ease users of its high-end servers onto its Integrity line, which uses Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. has updated and expanded its Itanium-based Integrity server line by adding new low-end models, processor upgrades and better virtualization support.
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Hewlett-Packard hammered home its commitment to the Itanium 2 chips this week, announcing new mid- and high-end members of its Integrity family of servers with the Madison chip, along with new support for OpenVMS 8.2, Novell's version of Linux, bundled virtualization software and, for the first time, a pay-per-use policy for server-based Windows.ADVERTISEMENTReducing the Total Cost of OwnershipLearn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.
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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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Intel has introduced a third-generation Itanium 2 into the market, but Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has noted that its Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition will not run on servers with the chip.