San Francisco (CA) – There isn’t much we have heard about Intel’s flagship processor for datacenter processors lately: But Itanium is alive and Intel has just updated its roadmap – ranging from the upcoming Montvale processor, to Tukwila, the first 32 nm design Poulson and its successor Kittson.

According to Intel, Montvale, the update of the current dual-core Itanium 2 (Montecito), is on track for a launch in the second half of this year. The chip will bring higher clock speeds, larger caches and a faster front side bus. Tukwila, scheduled for a late 2008 introduction, will take the Itanium family to 65 nm.

Features of Tukwila will include four cores, support for hyperthreading and larger cache size, which will result in about twice the performance capability of Montvale, according to Intel. The CPU will also come with a new function called Double Device Data Correction (DDDC), which can fix both single and double device memory hard-errors, according to Intel. Additionally, Tukwila will introduce the Common System Interface (CSI) as a replacement for the front side bus as well as an integrated memory controller

Poulson, expected to debut in the 2010 timeframe, will be built on a 32 nm structure and will be based on what Intel calls a “new ultra parallel micro-architecture.” Intel promises “significantly more cores, more threads and more instructions per cycle” for Poulson, while it will continue to integrate large on-die caches. “Kittson” will follow after Poulson; Intel declined to comment on any details about this processor.

Huh

Jun 17, 2007 00:00     

Well I hope this Itanium is taken better than the last one was, even though the last one was pretty nice but wasnt taken in due to it being pure 64bit only processor. But I am sure Intel has some sort of trick up their sleeve.
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AMD taught Intel one thing and I hope Intel learned...

Jun 17, 2007 14:17     

AMD taught Intel one thing and I hope Intel learned the lesson well. Intel, you cannot rest on your profits without getting passed by.. Remember the Tortis and the Hare?
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It was about time to introduce IMC for Intel and to...

Jun 17, 2007 17:54     

It was about time to introduce IMC for Intel and to change teir weakness... the fsb. I think this new CPU will give headake to AMD... but they will find a new better solution...I hope so
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poor AMD

Jun 18, 2007 14:17     

AMD fanboys the world over cringe at the idea of an integrated memory controller on an Intel chip. I miss you AMD.
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