Itanium Processor - Tukwila
The next-generation Intel Itanium processor, code-named Tukwila marks another stage of growth for industry standards-based mission-critical computing. The momentum for Itanium®-based systems has been on the rise, gaining share versus its competing platforms, IBM Power® and Sun SPARCTM architectures. With this next release, strong industry adoption rates are expected to continue.
Itanium-based systems continue to gain share in both system revenues and system volume. In the fourth quarter of 2008, Itanium-based system revenue reached 91 percent of Sun SPARC’s worldwide share. Similarly, Itanium-based system achieved 64 percent of IBM POWER's worldwide share. (Source: IDC Q408 Worldwide Server Tracker)
Tukwila is based on Intel's 65nm process technology and has an early clock speed of up to 1.86 GHz. It is the world's first 2 billion transistor microprocessor and also includes new features such as 30MB of on-die cache and new RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) features like DDDC (Double Device Data Correction) interconnect reliability features and Soft Error Rate (SER) immunity via SER-hardened circuits. The new processor uses an energy efficient design to deliver 9x computer BW and 6x memory bandwidth compared to the current Dual-Core Intel Itanium 9100 series processor. Another Tukwila advantage is the integration ofIntel® QuickPathTM Interconnect technologywhich, when coupled with Intel's new innovative Quad-Core technology and massive caches, enables more than a twice the performance gain over the current Intel Itanium 9100 series processor. The new processors will continue to offer mainframe-class security, RAS and advanced virtualization all within the Boxboro chipset enables development synergies since it can be used in high-volume Xeon-based systems as well.
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Additional Information:- Quad-Core processing, EPIC architecture, and Hyper-Threading Technology to support eight threads per processor
-Intel® Virtualization Technology for enhanced virtualization
-Intel® Cache Safe Technology
-Increased RAS
-More than 2 billion transistors
-30 MB on-die L3 cache
-Enhanced Machine Check Architecture
-Increased security features
-Demand-Based Switching
-Intel® QuickPath Interconnect
-More than 2X Performance of Previous Generation
-Improved Soft Error Rate (SER) Immunity
-Voltage Frequency Management
-DDR3 Memory
The next-generation Itanium processor will build on its predecessor, the Intel Itanium processor 9100. Based on the 90nm process, the Dual-Core Intel Itanium processor 9100 series has an energy efficient clock speed of up to 1.66GHz and includes new notable features such as core-level lockstep (a mainframe-class RAS feature), demand-based switching for improved energy efficiency and front-side bus performance by up to 667MHz. The Intel Itanium processor 9100 series also boasts 24MB on-die cache and other features such as Enhanced Machine Check Architecture (another mainframe-class RAS feature) and increased security features.
