Intel to launch dual-core Itanium 2 CPUs on July 18

Intel to launch dual-core Itanium 2 CPUs on July 18

Daniel Fleshbourne on 30 June 2006 - 18:39 · 1 comment & 1763 views

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Intel plans to add its dual-core Itanium 2 CPU line, dubbed "Montecito," to to its current Xeon 5100 series (codenamed Woodcrest) and Dempsey processor offerings on July 18, according to sources at Taiwan server makers. The dual-core "Montecito" processor line will feature more advanced specifications for the high-end market, compared to the "Woodcrest" seres under the new Intel Core microarchitecture (65-80W in power consumption) and the "Dempsey" under the NetBurst microarchitecture (95-130W in power consumption), indicated the sources.

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#1 tiwaris on 30 Jun 2006 - 20:54

Itaniums would have been extremely successfully if they were not ridiculously overpriced. An itanium (single core) can do 8 flops per cycle which is amazing and given it FPU efficiency, it would have been a killer processor for HPC but its price beats all its advantages. A similar amount of money spend on an opteron based system can deliver thrice the performance. It would still be interesting to see how does it performs on HPL.

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