Intel Quad Core Itanium Processor

Intel has told the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco that its new quad core Itanium processor will carry 2bn transistors.

The new 65-nanometer Tukwila Itanium processor, which is expected to be released at the end of this year, will run at up to 2 GHz, have dual-integrated memory controllers and use Intel's QuickPath interconnect instead of a front-side bus.

Itanium, which first hit the market in 2001, targets enterprise servers and high-performance computing machines.

Shiveley noted that Tukwila is expected to have double the performance of Montvale, another Itanium processor that was released late last year, while using only 25% more power. He added that the low power-consumption increase is based on new voltage frequency management technology.

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