Intel to enhance its Itanium chips
Monday, 18 June 2007
ROME, June 17 (AP): Intel ignited a new round of competition with Sun Microsystems and International Business Machines today by announcing plans to bring its most advanced chip-making technology to its Itanium line of business chips for the first time.
The plan, which will unfold after 2008, should bring higher performance and greater energy efficiency to the line of chips designed for workhorse servers that store corporate data and back-office programs.
The disclosure came during a briefing for journalists in San Francisco where Intel unveiled a new chip -- code-named Kittson -- and details of one it had previously announced -- called Poulson.
The plan, which will unfold after 2008, should bring higher performance and greater energy efficiency to the line of chips designed for workhorse servers that store corporate data and back-office programs.
The disclosure came during a briefing for journalists in San Francisco where Intel unveiled a new chip -- code-named Kittson -- and details of one it had previously announced -- called Poulson.