Intel's Itanium processors were 64-bit chips, specifically designed for high-end enterprise and high-performance applications. The Itanium 2 processor was the second in the Itanium processor family. Intel faced major challenges in gaining acceptance for Itanium. Intel had put tremendous amounts of energy and money behind Itanium. Intel's IA-64 fund, started by Intel for encouraging the use of Intel architecture, had invested heavily in start-ups to assist them in developing Itanium-based applications and worked extensively with established hardware and software manufacturers to get them involved in Itanium-based projects. Would Itanium 2 also share the same fate as Itanium 1 or would the tech world embrace this new processor? The article illustrates the challenges involved in gaining market acceptance for a new technology.
The Itanium 2 processor is the second in the Itanium processor family. Itanium processors were specifically designed for high-end enterprise and high-performance applications, like business intelligence, databases, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, high-performance computing, and computer-aided engineering. The Itanium 2 supports high transaction volumes, complex calculations and vast amounts of data and users.
The processor's Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design1and 3 MB integrated Level 3 (L3)2cache enables high processing rates and performance for faster online transaction processing, data analysis, and simulation and rendering. The processor also boasts advanced reliability features, including extensive error detection and correction on the processor's major data structures. Itanium 2 also has an advanced Machine Check Architecture for intelligent error management and recovery of complex platform errors to prevent data loss, corruption and down time. |
