Montecito processors will likely account for around 80% of Itanium 2 shipments by the fourth quarter of this year, Intel said at a press event in Taipei. On 19 July, the company officially presented its first dual-core Itanium 2 CPUs in Taiwan, but no Taiwan makers appeared on the stage, leaving the attention to the bigger players such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Bull, Fujitsu, SGI and Unisys.

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