Intel has announced details of a processor range specifically aimed at networking hardware manufacturers, which focus on providing Internet infrastructure. The processor range is part of Level One communications' portfolio - a company recently...
Will Itanium be compatible with Intel's chips? Mike Pfister, vice president and general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform division, said that revived interest in Linux over the past two years has given Unix mainstream credibility that had not...
Intel unveiled its first low-powered Pentium chips for "blade" servers with double processors. The new chip runs at 800MHz - faster than Intel's existing 700MHz blade server chip. Blade servers are ultra-thin servers designed to fit into horizontal...
The Low Voltage Itanium 2 runs at 1GHz and comes with a 1.5MB cache, which is a reservoir of memory integrated into the processor for rapid data access. The Low Voltage Itanium 2, formerly code-named Deerfield, and a scaled-down version of the...
The second offering is a low voltage 1.0 GHz processor, again with 1.5 Mb L3 cache. The first offers 1.4 GHz performance with 1.5 MB L3 cache and has been optimised for dual processing technical computing systems and high performance clusters.
And on Wednesday, Intel announced the new version 2.0 of its $699 VTune software to help programmers find software bottlenecks, adding support for software running on Intel Itanium processors. Intel likely will take a two-phase approach to...