Bangalore, June 30: Global chip major Intel Corporation today launched new Itanium 2 processors and Xeon processors MP with greater performance over its predecessors. Senior company officials told a news conference here the new server processors were built on the broad choice of software and operating systems and architectural strengths of Intel processors, extending the company's products for high-end enterprise computing. They said the new Itanium 2 processor delivers up to 30 to 50 per cent greater performance than the previous Itanium 2 processor (code-named McKinley), while maintaining system compatibility with the previous Itanium 2 processor and two future Itanium processors (code-named Madison 9M and Montecito). According to the company, the 32-bit Xeon processor MP 2.80 GHZ is compatible with existing Intel Xeon processor MP-based platforms and delivers up to ten per cent or greater performance over its predecessor and better transaction-processing performance than comparable RISC-based platforms at half the cost per transaction.
"The combination of our two enterprise architecture has addressed the diverse needs of enterprise computing from top to bottom," Intel India president Ketan Sampat said. Bureau Report