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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (147994)	7/8/2002 7:04:43 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579699

ted, Intel double-speak: The Intel Itanium 2 processor will be supported by the Intel E8870 chipset, due this fall, which can support systems with two to 16 processors, and more processors per system using OEM custom switches. The E8870 brings [don't they mean WILL BRING] high-end reliability, availability and scalability (RAS) capabilities and key innovations such as the Scalability Port, a high-speed, bi-directional point to point bus with 6.4 GB/s bandwidth. In addition, several OEMs are planning their own custom chipsets for the Itanium 2 processor, with availability starting this summer [samples of ONE will be available on September 20] and growing throughout the year. [you might be able to buy one by the end of the year.] Intel will also offer an Itanium 2-based building block platform to systems builders and products integrators. The SR870BN4, available in the second half of this year, will be a 4-way, 4U server platform with a highly modular design in a dense package for the enterprise and high performance computing markets. Itanium 2 processors will feature 3 MB and 1.5 MB of integrated L3 cache and 1 GHz and 900 MHz frequency speeds at prices ranging from $1,338 to $4,226. [Is power dissipation still 130 watts?] Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom. (1) Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. (2) Transaction processing projections based on Intel estimates [!!!} for Sun UltraSPARC III 1050MHz and Itanium 2 processor forecasted production target based on measurements of 4-processor Itanium 2-based prototype systems [production "target" based on "prototype systems"] at 1GHz with integrated 3MB L3 cache, 32GB DDRAM, Microsoft .NET(1) Beta OS or Windows(1) 2000 64-bit Beta OS, using online transaction processing (OLTP) workload testing at Intel. Petz