Intel Launches Itanium 9300

Santa Clara, California-headquartered Intel Corporation has launched the Itanium 9300, a processor targeted at mission-critical computing environments. This processor was codenamed “Tukwila” during its design stages.

The new processor ranges in price from USD 946 to USD 3,838 in quantities of 1,000. The family comprises 9310 with 2 cores and 4 threads, and 9320, 9330, 9340 and 9350, all with 4 cores and 8 threads.

The Itanium 9300 processor operates at 1.73 GHz base frequency and up to 1.86 GHz at peak workloads. The processor includes various platform ingredients such as QuickPath Interconnect, which has a bandwidth of 4.8 GT/s, and Scalable Memory Interconnect. In addition, the processor also has 7500 Scalable Memory Buffer which exploits the capabilities of DDR3 memories. The processor can address up to 1,024 terabytes of memory. The i/o hub is the standard 7500 chipset, which allows i/o devices to be assigned to virtual machines.

The processor comprises 2 billion transistors, four cores, more cache and 800% more interconnect bandwidth than the predecessors. The second generation of virtualization technology has been incorporated into its innards to increase performance and robustness, according to the company release.

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