Intel began shipping a new generation of Itanium processors

Intel Tuesday said that a new generation, code-named Tukwila Itanium processor has already begun shipping. The product  laptop batteryrelease dates previously postponed several times.

Itanium 64-bit processor, the main need for a longer uptime for the fault-tolerant server design. Intel said in a blog, Tukwila will be released in the first quarter of this year. Intel said that, Tukwila is currently the fastest Itanium processors. The product performance and structure of a number of improvements to enhance system performance.

Intel said: "Compared with the previous generation product, Tukwila is not only doubled the performance, but also added a series of features for improved scalability, reliability and virtualization." The product is a 4-core design is code-named Montecito Itanium 9100 series chip upgrade Inspiron 1100 battery, Inspiron 1300 battery, Inspiron 1501 battery, which was released in 2006.

International Solid-State Circuits Conference (International Solid-State Circuits Conference) will be held February 7 to 11 in the United States held in San Francisco, Sun and IBM are expected to publish the conference high-end server chip. Intel will also release next Monday a new processor, but the company spokesman declined to say whether this processor is Tukwila.

Development issues led to the release of Tukwila delayed several times. Once in February last year, Intel delayed the release of the product, would be to address such new DDR3 memory technology provides faster speeds. Due to increase scalability, Intel in October last year, once again delayed the product release date.

Market research firm Insight 64 analyst Nathan Brookwood Principal (Nathan Brookwood), said, Tukwila most likely release date is next Monday. In his view, the product release date, though sometimes late, but not too late. The high-end chip market's development is very slow, such a complicated structure like the Itanium will take some time to developed and produced Inspiron 1520 battery, Inspiron 1525 battery, Inspiron 1526 battery.

Itanium's main rival is Sun's Sparc processors and IBM's Power processor. Brookwood said: "In this market, an excellent product is more important than the early release." These products need a strong performance and reliability.

Brookwood said, IBM will soon release Power7 architecture, so Itanium server makers need to be updated to catch up with IBM pace. However, the Itanium processor is not yet any great success, and only a few Hewlett-Packard and other companies use the product. Nevertheless, Intel is still the product, a 6-year development road map.

Tukwila using 65-nanometer process, its next-generation products Poulson will use 32-nanometer process, since it is Kittson. However, Intel did not provide time for the release of Poulson.

Intel plans to launch the first half of several other server processor, which is the most anticipated Nehalem-EX. This is an 8-core x86 processors, mainly used for high-end systems such as databases. Intel CEO Paul Otellini (Paul Otellini) has said, Nehalem-EX will be Intel's fastest server chips to date. The next three months, Intel is also expected for the low-end market Westmere processor.

Brookwood said, Nehalem-EX will x86 servers to a higher height, but its software and the performance was lost to Itanium. Mainly focus on the HP NonStop Itanium mainframe, etc., and x86 server does not belong to similar products Inspiron 1720 battery, Inspiron 510m battery, Inspiron 600m battery.