Intel wants to remove price as a barrier to the acceptance of Itanium servers, a goal that could allow the processor to become the company’s primary server chip in the second half of the decade. "The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker is working on chipsets and other products and technologies that will make an Itanium-based server no more expensive than a similar machine powered by its Xeon chip by 2007, said Mike Fister, senior vice president of the server products group at Intel."

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