So the year is 2004 and Intel launches Montecito, its next-next-next generation 64-bit server CPU. That's the code name and that's the plan for the latest processor to appear on the company's roadmap, announced yesterday by Mike Fister, Intel's top server guy, at IDF, Drew Cullen writes .

The CPU is to be built on a 90nm process and it will mark an 'evolution' of Intel' 64-bit architecture, with "amazing things on the die". Sounds like a different core from McKinley, but that's all Intel is prepared to tell us right now. That's not so surprising...

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