Intel christens 64-bit McKinley chip
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Instel'S next 64-bit server processor will now possibly be referred to as "Junior" by the original Itanium chip. he chip maker on Thursday announced it has named its next 64-bit Itanium processor "Itanium 2," according to representatives for Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel. ormerly code-named McKinley, Intel's upcoming Itanium 2 will be the second chip of the company's 64-bit line of Itanium processors. Sronger and faster than Itanium, Itanium 2 should offer as much as twice the performance of its parent chip, according to Intel..
Scheduled to arrive in mid-2002, Itanium 2 will be the first chip of the Itanium line ready to shoulder mission-critical computing tasks in application and database server environments. The original Itanium chip was generally regarded as proof-of-concept for Intel's 64-bit processor technology and was used primarily in servers porting applications to Intel's 64-bit platform.