New Itanium More Powerful, Power Efficient

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 20, 2006 @01:04AM from the try-try-again dept.

Heir Of The Mess writes "Intel have a press release out about their new Itanium 2 Processor. The new processor doubles the performance, and improves performance per watt by 2.5 times compared to the existing single-core versions. The flagship model triples the cache and can execute 4 threads/instructions per processor enhanced by Hyper-Threading. Transistor count is a whopping 1.7 billion. Triples the previous SPEC_int_rate_base_2000 record. Retails for US$3692 for the top of the range.
So yes the Itanium crew are still pushing forward. I wonder if this could help save SGI?"

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The ship has sailed by powerlord · 2006-07-20 01:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

Considering how little buzz this article seems to be generating (even on Slashdot), it seems like this might be a case of too little, too late.

The world has moved on from iTanic to x86-64.

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