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Montecito Itanium Arrives
News Intel launched its "Montecito" Itanium on Tuesday, doubling performance compared with its predecessor and upgrading ambitions for a high-end chip family that got off to a rocky start. Each Montecito chip has two processor cores, which is a first...
[July 19, 2006, 9:20]
Intel: Montecito Or Bust?
News Following Intel's first public demonstration of its latest Itanium -- the dual-core Montecito -- Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, talked to ZDNet UK about future plans for the technology, how Itanium is...
[September 9, 2004, 10:40]
Nine 'Montecito' Itaniums On The Way
News Intel is expected to begin the introduction of its "Montecito" processors with three models running at 1.6GHz and 1.4GHz, but by the end of the first half of next year at least six more are scheduled to arrive.
[October 13, 2005, 10:30]
SGI Counts In Montecito
News SGI, which specialises in machines for high-performance technical-computing jobs such as aerodynamics simulations, plans to release its next-generation Altix model at the same time that Intel releases its new "Montecito" version of Itanium, said...
[December 23, 2004, 9:05]
Intel Cuts Montecito's Power Consumption
News Intel's forthcoming "Montecito" member of the Itanium processor family will consume 100 watts, a significant drop from the 130 watts of current models and an advantage in an era when power consumption is a top enemy.
[January 30, 2006, 8:55]
Intel's Virtually There With Montecito
News Intel engineers and planners released a few more details about the forthcoming dual-core Itanium chip code-named Montecito on Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum. Focusing on virtualisation, the process where one chip can pretend to be multiple...
[September 10, 2004, 9:20]
Intel: Glory Days Lie Ahead For Montecito
News Q: Intel today launched the Montecito processor version of its Itanium 2 processor family. What's important about the Montecito launch? We will look back at this as the inflection point of the platform," he said in an interview at Intel's launch...
[July 19, 2006, 15:40]
Last Orders In Montecito
Leader So today's launch of Intel's Montecito chip should have had us salivating. Yet Montecito is a big step forward. At that rate, Intel's eight vendor partners won't be selling their Montecito servers on the cheap: it's not coming out of its top-end...
[July 19, 2006, 15:30]
Fujitsu Adds Montecito To Its Itanium Line
News Fujitsu is revamping its server line with Intel's dual-core "Montecito" version of the Itanium 2 processor, upgrading two high-end models and introducing a third, midrange system. With the Montecito chip, Fujitsu is upgrading the machines into the...
[July 18, 2006, 16:20]
Montecito Itanium Arrives
Talkback Still not sure if this will be enough to save Itanium's bacon.x86 still seems to be where the action is.
[July 19, 2006, 10:00]
Dual-core Itanium Chip Gets Airing
News Montecito, Intel's first dual-core chip, will contain nearly two billion transistors but will run cooler than its existing relatives. A member of the Itanium family of server processors, Montecito will contain 1.7 billion transistors, making it...
[February 7, 2005, 8:10]
HP Plans To Upgrade Integrity Server Line
News HP plans to announce on Thursday that it is upgrading its high-end Integrity server line with Intel's new "Montecito" Itanium processor — a move to counter a resurgent Sun and 2005's Unix server top dog, IBM.
[September 7, 2006, 9:00]
Dual-core Itanium Finally Ready
News Intel will launch its "Montecito" version of Itanium, the first dual-core version of the processor, on 18 July, sources familiar with the event said. Intel had planned to launch Montecito in 2005. The highest-end Montecito is expected to run at a...
[July 10, 2006, 10:30]
Intel's Montvale Itanium Chip Arrives
News Code-named "Montvale", the chip is an update to Montecito, the Dual-Core Itanium 2 chip which was launched in July last year, Eddie Toh, regional platform marketing manager of the Server Platforms Group for Asia-Pacific at Intel, said in an...
[October 31, 2007, 7:56]
Intel Reveals Itanium Details
News Tukwila, the Montecito successor coming in 2007, will sport these same features but contain more processor cores and probably other enhancements. Montecito, an Itanium 2 that will arrive next year, will sport SpeedStep, a technology first deployed...
[July 26, 2004, 8:45]
Dual-core Chips Will Not Share Cache
News A version of Opteron coming in 2005 and Montecito, a future member of Intel's Itanium family also slated for next year, will both have two processor cores, the actual unit inside a processor that performs the calculations, and each core will have...
[August 26, 2004, 8:20]
HP To Double Up Itanium Chips
News The plans, which apply to the next-generation "Madison" and "Montecito" models in Intel's Itanium chip line, illustrate that HP is able to expand on the basic processors that Intel offers, decreasing its reliance on the chipmaker.
[October 25, 2002, 7:33]
Intel Puts New Server Chips On Roadmap
News Abhi Talwalkar, who earlier this year replaced Mike Fister as general manager of the Enterprise Platforms Group, revealed more details about the Montecito dual-core Itanium 2 processor for multi-processor (MP) platforms.
[September 8, 2004, 12:45]
Intel Abandons X86 Support On Itanium
News Circuitry to let Itanium run software for x86 chips, such as Pentium and Xeon chips, is not present in the forthcoming "Montecito" processor, according to the 176-page reference manual for the chip published this week.
[January 20, 2006, 8:10]
Itanium Gets Scaled Down And Pushed Back
News Another change will be removal of higher-end Montecito models whose front-side bus — the connection to the rest of the system runs at 667MHz, leaving only the 400MHz and 533MHz models. In addition, Montecito won't incorporate the "Foxton...
[October 25, 2005, 9:40]
