Intel sets the date for Madison 9M
News The processor, an upgraded member of the Madison line, boosts high-speed cache memory from 6MB to 9MB -- thus its nickname: Madison 9M. Intel's newest top-line Itanium 2 processor is due to arrive on 8 November, according to sources familiar with...
[November 1, 2004, 7:29]
Intel to boost single-core performance
News The Itanium 2 9M chip, which debuted in November 2004, is an upgraded member of the Madison line. Dubbed Madison 9M, the 130nm (nanometre) processor features high-speed cache memory from 6MB to 9MB. Intel plans to increase the performance of...
[October 3, 2007, 14:03]
SGI counts in Montecito
News The current "Madison" generation of Itanium has a single processing engine, but the Montecito line will have two such engines on a single slice of silicon. Our current systems put two Madison 9M (Itanium) processors on each front-side bus.
[December 23, 2004, 9:05]
SGI plans Linux renaissance
News The machines will accommodate the current Madison 9M version of the Intel's Itanium processor as well as the chipmaker's delayed dual-core Montecito, due to arrive in mid-2006. Silicon Graphics (SGI) will start showing off the Altix 4000 Monday...
[November 14, 2005, 8:15]
Montecito Itanium arrives
News The delay left a nearly two-year gap from the arrival of Montecito's "Madison 9M" predecessor. Intel launched its "Montecito" Itanium on Tuesday, doubling performance compared with its predecessor and upgrading ambitions for a high-end chip family...
[July 19, 2006, 9:20]
HP plans to upgrade Integrity server line
News With Lightning came new higher-end server designs that featured faster internal communications with the sx2000 "Arches" chipset, but still had the last-generation "Madison 9M" Itanium chips. HP plans to announce on Thursday that it is upgrading its...
[September 7, 2006, 9:00]
