Intel Spins Last Single-Core Itaniums
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Monday July 18 2005 @ 09:53PM EDT
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TechWeb: Paving a path towards its upcoming, dual-core Montecito server processor, Intel on Monday unveiled what will be the final single-core upgrades to its Itanium 2 processor family.
"The interesting thing about this announcement is the increased speed of the front-side bus," said Kevin Krewell, editor-in-chief of the Microprocessor Report, in an interview. "It's a progression in bus bandwidth that Intel needs in order to feed Montecito. That will have two cores sharing the same bus, and 400 MHz is just not going to be fast enough."
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