Intel is expected to announce next week what may be the last batch of single-core Itanium processors, CNET News.com has learned.
According to a source familiar with Intel's plans, the chipmaking giant will introduce on Monday two Itanium 2 processors from its 64-bit Madison lineup. The chips will run at speeds of 1.66GHz, with computer memory cache sizes of 9MB and 6MB, respectively, and are expected to be snatched up by mainframe computer makers such as Hitachi, Fujitsu and Silicon Graphics Inc.
Prices for the new Itanium processors were not made available at press time. Intel currently sells similar processors for as much as $4,227 in large quantities with a 400MHz front-side bus that speeds data to and from the chip. The new versions are expected to ship with a front-side bus that can reach 667MHz.
News source: C|Net News.com
According to a source familiar with Intel's plans, the chipmaking giant will introduce on Monday two Itanium 2 processors from its 64-bit Madison lineup. The chips will run at speeds of 1.66GHz, with computer memory cache sizes of 9MB and 6MB, respectively, and are expected to be snatched up by mainframe computer makers such as Hitachi, Fujitsu and Silicon Graphics Inc.
Prices for the new Itanium processors were not made available at press time. Intel currently sells similar processors for as much as $4,227 in large quantities with a 400MHz front-side bus that speeds data to and from the chip. The new versions are expected to ship with a front-side bus that can reach 667MHz.
News source: C|Net News.com
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Which means that Intel is planing to roll out multi-core (or dual-core) CPUs for servers sometime soon.
Which means that a lot of you missed the point.
As far as the expected price goes, they're charging what they thing the market will pay. Don't blame them if you think it's too much.
Take a look at the Pentium-M processors (yes they're Intel, and they blow anything AMD-mobile out of the water). They run at speeds from 1.4-2.1 GHz (give or take) and compare with P4's at 2.0-3.4GHz and the corresponding AMD chips.
When you're running a server that's communicating with several hundred computers, crunching power isn't as important as memory.
For price, Intel and AMD are very close now, they see-saw back and forth on who is lower. Itanium may have much lower clockspeed than an Opteron, but it is a different chip for a different kind of computer.
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