Intel had to wait too long to perform 'Montecito'

'Montecito', the first two-core version of the Itanium family, will be introduced on July 18, 2006. Itanium is Intel's very powerful chip for servers and high-end workstations.

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In the world of technology, the introduction of microprocessor-based processors represents somewhat 'class' and 'realism' of the company's own manufacturing technology.

Composed of 1.7 billion transistors, 'Montecito' is Intel's flagship competition, dominating the high-end server and workstation market, where Sun Microsystems' Sparc processors and Power series IBM is currently taking the initiative.

Montecito was born in 2005, but was delayed until today, the bus limit is 200 Mhz, and there are no technologies that Intel has 'noticed' like Foxton - the technology that allows Itanium chips to run. with bus greater than 200 Mhz, when the temperature threshold is allowed. The maximum speed can run is 1.6 Ghz, lower than the intended (2 Ghz with Foxton technology). However, 'Montecito', also known as Itanium 2 Series 9000, is equipped with energy saving technology. 'Montecito' has an average consumption of about 100W compared to Itanium's 130W.

Unlike HyperThreading technology of single-core chips such as Pentium and Xeon, which only help CPU process multiple scripts at the same time, VT (Virtualization Technology) technology allows multi-receiving CPU to run multiple operating systems simultaneously. That means, 'multi-platform' applications will be better handled.

Montecito will be distributed to customers after the second quarter of this year.

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