ntel unveiled five new products in the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 9000 series. Previously codenamed “Montecito,” the new 64-bit Itanium server processors “double the performance and lower energy requirements, improving performance per watt by 2.5 times compared to existing, single-core versions”, Intel’s press release says.
The Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 series delivers performance at a system scale unmatched by competing RISC architectures. According to Intel, Itanium 2 sets world record results in several key server benchmarks including a score of 4230 SPEC_int_rate_base_20001, nearly triple the previous record.
