Intel has announced the launch of new generation Itanium processors, designed for use in enterprise-class computing facilities. The press release notes that the Itanium 9500 series processors (Poulson) twice exceed their predecessors in terms of performance and are the most sophisticated general purpose CPU to date.
For the production of processors are used 32 nm technology. Poulson Crystal has 3.1 billion transistors and up to eight active cores and up to 54 MB of cache. Itanium 9500 contain an integrated memory controller that supports modules with the total volume up to 2 terabytes. Currently there are four processors:
Model |
Cores |
Streams |
L3 cache |
Frequency |
TDP |
Itanium 9560 |
8 |
16 |
32 MB |
2.53 GHz |
170 W |
Itanium 9550 |
4 |
8 |
32 MB |
2.4 GHz |
170 W |
Itanium 9540 |
8 |
16 |
24 MB |
2.13 GHz |
170 W |
Itanium 9520 |
4 |
8 |
20 MB |
1.73 GHz |
130 W |
Distribution of Itanium processor is mainly engaged by Hewlett-Packard company, but Intel claims that their products on base of these solutions present Nec, Hitachi, French Bull and Chinese Inspur. Cost of Itanium 9500 models ranges from $ 1,350 m to $ 4,650 in quantities of 1,000.
In 2010, Intel introduced a new strategy for the development of a common platform, in which the processor Itanium and Xeon E7 endowed support for shared components, including chip sets, interconnect and memory. The next step for Intel will be modular development model.
According to the concept, Kittson and Xeon E7 will have the same parts of the silicon crystal and get compatibility between the CPU socket. As we know, in the future, Intel completely abandon Itanium. Related Products :
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