New Itanium Chips Debut Next Week

KingFishKingFish
edited November 2004 in Science & Tech
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

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2004
    Woohoo! More paperweights! :D
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited November 2004
    It's a paperweight with a whole 9mb of cache. I wonder if it'll feel heavier than the 6mb cache paperweights.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2004
    Possibly. ;) Give me 5 years; I'll buy one from a surplus store for $15 and I'll let you know... :D
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited November 2004
    Do they really suck that bad? Sorry, I don't know about the server market.
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