The low voltage version of Intel's Itanium processor will go on sale Monday, making its first appearance in a new HP workstation.
The Low-Voltage Itanium 2 chip - aka Deerfield - arrived a bit earlier than we expected. The Reg heard the chip would arrive by mid-September as opposed to early on in the month. As the biggest Itanic backer, it's no surprise to see HP rolling out new kit on launch day.
Linux can now run on Intel's high end processor without needing special patches
The Itanium version of Linux crossed an important threshold on Monday, developers said: it now can be built from the standard software maintained by Linux leader Linus Torvalds rather than requiring special patches.
Intel is to introduce new motherboards in the fourth quarter that incorporate Wave Systems' security software to combat theft and unauthorised copying of data.
The news came in an announcement from Wave on Thursday. The company's software enables a chip, called the Trusted Platform Module, that handles the additional security functions. The TPM, designed by the Trusted Computing Group, will encrypt and decrypt documents and is said to ensure that documents are stored in secure places of a PC.
Intel today extended its Xeon DP processor line with a new 3.06GHz version containing 1MB of on-die L3 cache - double that of the previous generation of the chip - as anticipated.
The new Xeon lacks the Pentium 4's 800MHz effective bit rate frontside bus - the Xeon's FSB has an effective bit rate of 533MHz. But Intel claims the new chip performs more than 15 per cent faster than the previous top-of-the-range Xeon DP.
As forecast, the chip will cost $690 in batches of 1000. Intel yesterday cut the prices of similar Xeons by up to 34 per cent:
Source: Info World
Intel is looking to boost its wireless networking push with the development of chips that will be the building blocks in broadband wireless networking equipment that could replace existing last-mile networking technologies, such as cable and digital subscriber lines. The announcement is the latest in a string of moves by the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker to push wireless computing applications.
Source: The Register
Intel will ship its next-generation 64-bit Itanium 2 chips on Monday, aka 'Madison' and 'Deerfield', along with new Xeon MP processors.
Source: ZDNet UK
Intel has found that when its Itanium servers are running Linux, their performance can be scaled upwards by adding processors, without losing any efficiency
Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux can rival Windows and Unix servers in database performance, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young operating system.
