It may be two years late, but Intel’s Itanium processor code-named Tukwila offers twice the number of cores as the current version code-named Montecito, with significant upgrades in memory and network bandwidth, features it shares with Intel’s high-end Xeon server chip, and greater virtualization capabilities. The Itanium 9300 series comes as IBM is rolling out four new Power7-based servers and Oracle is integrating Sun into its business.
– It took a little longer than expected, but Intel officials have finally
released quot;Tukwila, quot; the next-generation Itanium processor that offers
significant advances in performance and scalability and a host of features that
improve everything from virtualization capabilities to reliabilit…