Intel ships 'Madison' version of Itanium 2
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Intel executives say their comany's Itanium 2 platform has reached the point at which the market has begun spending as much--or more--on Intel 64-bit processors as it does on competing RISC chips.
The company's claim comes as it begins shipping Monday the next-generation "Madison" version of the Itanium 2 processor in a configuration that provides for increased scalability of solutions built on the platform.
In addition to the new 64-bit processor, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel also began shipping Monday new 32-bit 2.8GHz, 2.5GHz and 2GHz Xeon processors.