Intel Corp. is changing the road map for its 64-bit Itanium chip, adding in another Itanium 2 chip next year and putting dual-core processing technology into its Montecito processor, which initially was expected next year but now is due out in 2005.

The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker had intended to put the dual-core processing technology - which enables Intel to put two full processors onto the same piece of silicon and fit it into the same package, thereby essentially doubling the processing power - into chips after Montecito, according to Lisa Graff, director of enterprise processor marketing for Intel.

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