Intel shows off Montecito Itanium

PAUL OTELLINI from Intel picked up a 12-inch wafer and said that he was showing analysts in New York Montecito chips, which he said would be available in 2005.

Otellini said that Montecito has 1.7 billion transistors on each chip, 24MB of cache, is dual core, and would have three times increase in performance bandwidth, introduced in 2005. "We have silicon for this today," he claimed. He also said that nine out of 10 RISC firms now ship Itanium processors. The tenth is Sun, of course.

Intel claims that 40% of large corporations now deploy Itanium machines and there's over 1600 applications for the chip.

He also said that Intel will work on producing porting software for both its iAMD64 and Itanium platform.

And he claimed that Intel's competitor in this market - and by this he must mean AMD - has no technology anywhere near its own and future plans. µ