Intel Montecito set for July launch

RELIABLE SOURCES INDICATED that Intel will not introduce its Montecito Itanium processors at next week's Computex show, but introduce the chips in July.

Computex isn't really the right kind of venue for Itanium processors anyway.

According to roadmaps seen by the INQ, the date slated for the Montecito Itaniums is the 23rd of July - in line with other microprocessors, one of the SKUs (stock keeping units) will be a single core processor.

Below are details we hurriedly scribbled on the back of a fag packet. Intel will cut the prices of two of its existing Itanium DPs on the 23rd of July, but the rest of the existing range will be superseded by the new introductions, delayed further than Intel had projected them to be. µ

Number	Clock	Bus	Cache L3	Price
9050	1.6GHz	533/400	24MB	$3,700
9040	1.6GHz	533/400	18MB	$1,980
9030	1.6GHz	533/400	8MB	$1,550
9020	1.42GHz	533/400	12MB	$912
9015	1.4GHz	400	12MB	$750
9010 (SC)	1.6GHz	533/400	6MB	$695