Intel 'Madison' ships, OEMs update servers
ENT News | at | by Mike
Intel this week delivered its third-generation 64-bit processor, the "Madison" release of the Itanium 2 processor. Major server vendors including Dell, HP and IBM are poised with systems built on the higher performance chip.
Madison, which carries the same official "Itanium 2" product name as the last official release, code-named "McKinley," brings higher clockspeeds and much larger caches to the Itanium 2 line. The Madison chips come in three versions. There's a 1.5-GHz version with 6 MB of cache for $4,226 each in 1,000-unit quantities. A 1.4-GHz version with 4 MB of cache costs $2,247, and a 1.3-GHz version with 3 MB of cache costs $1,338.