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New Itanium Chips Debut Next Week

New Itanium Chips Debut Next Week

Intel is expected to invigorate its troubled Itanium family next week with a batch of new “Madison” processors.

Sources familiar with the company told internetnews.com the chip making giant will debut three versions of its Intel Itanium 2 IA-64 processor: a multi-processor (MP); a dual-processor code-named Fanwood (DP); and a low voltage processor (LV) code-named Deerfield. Each will come with 9Mb of L3 cache. Previous versions released this summer supported 6Mb. The chips are designed for back-end servers in high-performance computing environments.

Source: Internet News

Comments

  1. Geeky1
    Geeky1 Woohoo! More paperweights! :D
  2. KingFish
    KingFish It's a paperweight with a whole 9mb of cache. I wonder if it'll feel heavier than the 6mb cache paperweights.
  3. Geeky1
    Geeky1 Possibly. ;) Give me 5 years; I'll buy one from a surplus store for $15 and I'll let you know... :D
  4. Medlock
    Medlock Do they really suck that bad? Sorry, I don't know about the server market.

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