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Intel’s Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead
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Remember Itanium? Intel’s first crack at 64-bit server processors from circa the turn of the millennium? Well, two things: Intel is releasing four new 9700-series Itanium CPUs based on the “Kittson” architecture, and the chips are the last new Itanium processors that the company plans to ship.
An Intel spokesperson confirmed to PC World that this was the end of the line for Itanium, which jibes with an agreement under which HP would pay Intel to continue developing Itanium chips through the end of 2017. Absent some kind of extension to that agreement, it’s unlikely that anyone else is interested in keeping Itanium alive at this point. IT World reports that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is the only vendor expected to ship servers that use the new CPUs.
Kittson chips offer either four or eight CPU cores manufactured on Intel’s circa-2010 32nm process, the same one used for the very first Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs. All the Kittson chips support Hyperthreading and ECC DDR3. The quad-core chips sport a 130W TDP, while the octo-core versions have 170W TDPs.
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Intel’s Skylake “Scalable Processor” family is a new approach to Xeon
Last month, Intel’s new naming scheme for its Xeon processors leaked. Instead of E3, E5, and E7 branding, the chips would be given metallic names, from Bronze at the bottom end through Silver and Gold to Platinum at the top. Today, the company made this new branding official as part of a larger shake-up of its Xeon platform.
The next generation of Xeons, due to arrive this summer, will make up what Intel calls the “Xeon Scalable Processor Family.” This explains the change in core naming that is accompanying the new branding; the SP suffix is replacing the E, EP, and EX suffixes used in previous-generation Xeons.
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The change is motivated by the increased diversity in what Intel actually sells. Processors aren’t just processors any more; integrated Ethernet networking is already commonplace, and with the Xeon-SP platform Intel plans to integrate its QuickAssist accelerators (currently available as PCIe cards that accelerate cryptography and compression workloads), the AVX512 vector instruction extensions, and its Omni-Path interconnect. Intel also sells more than just processors and is positioning its Optane memory, FPGAs, Xeon Phi many-core accelerators, and silicon photonics products as broader parts of the platform.
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Intel’s 5G plans, ‘revolutionary’ Android security, LG’s G5 expandable smartphone: 10 things to see at MWC 2016 – PCR-online.biz
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Intel's 5G plans, 'revolutionary' Android security, LG's G5 expandable smartphone: 10 things to see at MWC 2016
PCR-online.biz Intel's 5G plans, 'revolutionary' Android security, LG's G5 expandable smartphone: 10. This year's Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona on Monday, February 22nd. We take a look at some of the must-see mobile tech, innovations and products on … |