Maui Dude, good article about Intel moving a lot of emphasis to servers. Couple of comments about it:
On the processor side, Intel is slated to release upgrades to the Pentium III Xeon and to Foster, the Pentium 4 core that will be called the Intel Xeon once it's released. The Itanium and McKinley will represent the company's 64-bit efforts.
One chip missing from his list for servers: one with lower power than Foster, for front end 1P - 2P web and other low end servers.
That is certainly good news, but some analysts believe that while the Itanium may improve system performance, it will take time for many applications to be ported, since porting to 64 bits is time-consuming. Nevertheless, the Itanium and McKinley will allow Intel to match IBM Corp.'s and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s enterprise offerings. For example, the Unisys ES7000, featuring Intel chips, has been a successful cellular multiprocessing platform and has outperformed Sun's E10000, according to analyst company D. H. Brown Associates Inc. of Port Chester, N.Y.
Cool that Unisys' ES7000 outperformed Sun's E10000. The way the paragraph is worded, you could get the impression that it may be populated by 64 bit chips, if you weren't paying close attention. Of course it isn't, there is no Intel 64 bitter in production, yet. The 32 way Unisys machine has 700 MHz, 2M Xeons.
On the IA-32 side, Intel is slated to introduce a 900MHz Pentium III Xeon with 2Mbytes of integrated cache in the next couple of weeks, to be followed in the second half of the year by a 1.4GHz Xeon (to be called the Foster upon release).
2 different Fosters, called DP and MP. Is somebody downplaying the >1.4 GHz Foster?
Tony |
