Intel Launches 8-Core Itanium 9500

Intel's Itanium processor launches are few and far between. It's new Itanium 9500 certainly is a beast of a processor. The chip is an up-to-date 32 nanometer Poulson architecture that basically doubles the cores to eight cores, increases the interconnecting speed and supports as much as 2TB, that's right, 2TB of RAM for extreme multitasking. With the help of an error-resistant buffer, Intel sees the new Itanium 9500 2.4 times faster than the Tukwila-era design its replacing. The new 8-core Itanium 9500 has a brisk clock speed of 1.73 GHz to 2.53 GHz. The new server processor starts at $1,350 per chip in bulk, and climbs to an eye-watering $4,650 for the fastest chip.


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