The future "Montecito" chip will be marketed as Itanium2 9000 with up to 1.8 GHz clock speed and a power consumption as little as 62 watts.. The future "Montecito" chip will be marketed as Itanium2 9000 with up to 1.8 GHz clock speed and a power consumption as little as 62 watts. The 1.7-billion transistor processor, the most complex processor built to date, will continue to listen to the Itanium2 name. Consumers will be able to differentiate these chips from existing Itanium2 chips through its 9000-series model number. The processor is designed for a power envelope of 62 watts, which indicates that the processor consumes only half the power of the current Itanium2 (122 watts)....

Among these, 254 are driven by Xeon processors, the highest performing model in the 20th spot, dubbed "Tungsten," a cluster of 2500 dual-processor Dell PowerEdge 1750 systems running Red Hat Linux. 79 of the Intel spots were claimed by Itanium systems, the highest ranking being ranked in seventh place, dubbed "Thunder," a 1024 node cluster of Tiger4 1.4 GHz Itanium2 servers, also run by Liver......

Later, McLaughlin added that all of his 32-bit "legacy apps" run fine on the Itanium-2 64-bit platform, "which is all I care about, really."...

Intel to discontinue some Itanium 2s, Xeon MPs. intel to discontinue some itanium2....

Intel to launch dual-core Itanium 2 at Computex. intel itanium2....

Intel's flagship goes dual-core. montecito itanium2 launch....