The company is expected to tout the advantages of 64-bit Itanium servers over their 32-bit Intel Xeon brethren - benefits such as the ability to handle more physical memory and to perform floating-point calculations with more aplomb - for markets...
The BL30p server is scheduled to ship by the end of June and will cost less than the current dual-processor BL20p, according to HP, though both systems use Intel's new "Prestonia" generation of the Xeon processor.
Otellini pointed to a boost from processors that power notebooks and highlighted the launch of the company's new dual-core Xeon processors ahead of schedule and the first shipment of chips built on its 65-nanometer process technology.
Its software lets different operating systems run in virtual machines; each virtual machine appears to be an entirely separate computer but in fact each shares the same hardware with others. Intel Virtualization Technology - code-named Vanderpool...
Although Xeon server processors will begin using the Core microarchitecture when the Woodcrest model arrives in the third quarter, they won't sport the Core brand the way desktop PCs do, Chandrasekher said.
All Rev F models have dual processing cores; systems built for Rev F chips will also accommodate quad-core successors due in 2007. Intel's new Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processor, introduced in June, is now competitive with Opteron both on performance...