To 2008 year intel will replace the name of its high performance servers processors from Itanium to Mission critical (MC) . A change to the processors series itanium 2 9000 and chipsets E8870 will arrive the platform boxboro MC made by the processors tukwila MC and chipsets Boxboro MC.
The series EX, EP and EN, which will appear in future Xeon. The Segment EX will be presented by the processors dunnington (replacement of present Xeon 7000, platform caneland).
The two-socket series EP will be built instead of present platform bensley (processors xeon 5000 and chipset 5000P Blackford) on base Of tylersburg EP (processors nehalem EP and chipset tylersburg-36S).
The systems with initial level, EN, will be completed by the processors nehalem EP and chipset tylersburg-24D.
All new chipsets, both for Mission critical and for Xeon next generation will support high-speed system bus CSI (Common system interconnect)