Intel unveils budget Itaniums

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
On Monday the chipmaker Intel released a pair of Itanium 2 CPU's for rack-mounted servers and clusters in an attempt to expand the chip family's range.
The Low Voltage Itanium 2, formerly code-named Deerfield, and a scaled-down version of the latest Itanium 2 chip are largely designed to fit inside two-processor servers where cost, space and energy consumption are paramount concerns.

All three factors are important in clusters, which can consist of a few thousand computers strung together for mainframe-class tasks, or in relatively low-cost servers dedicated to a few specific tasks, such as handling authentication for a large Web site.

"There have been two-processor (Itanium) systems out there, but this allows us to be more effective from a low-power and cost perspective," said Jason Waxman, director of multiplatform marketing at Intel.

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Comments

  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited September 2003
    Isn't Itanium latin for underperforming, extremely overpriced 64-bit piece of crap?

    Budget & Itanium really shouldn't be used in the same sentence :D
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    And at 1GHz it still consumes 62watts. Prices range from $1100 to $4227
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