Intel to Boost Single-Core Performance

[HardOCP News]

An Intel engineer, speaking at the Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo, says that Intel has plans to increase the performance of individual cores in the Itanium, not just increase the number of cores.

Speaking at the Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo held in Singapore on Tuesday, Cameron McNairy, principal engineer of Itanium Processor Architect at Intel, said: "We have not abandoned single-core performance and we're looking to increase that with each generation (of the Itanium processor) as we go forward, some with greater transitions than others.”

 

[DanNeely]

Does anyone really care about the Itantic that much? Aside from a handful of people running very highend n-way servers there's never been any sort of mainstream market for hte chip.

 

[pxc]

Does anyone really care about the Itantic that much? Aside from a handful of people running very highend n-way servers there's never been any sort of mainstream market for hte chip.

Yeah, it's not mainstream and probably never will be. But the companies that sell Itanium servers probably do care about it since Itanium server sales revenue just surpassed Opteron server sales revenue a quarter or two ago.

Gosh, Charlie wasn't able to sink it by calling it "Itanic".

 

[DanNeely]

*blink*

I knew the sticker prices in very high end servers were large, but had no idea the total sales volumn was anywhere near that high.