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New Intel® Itanium® Processor 9500 Delivers Breakthrough Capabilities for Mission-Critical Computing
SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
In an era of unprecedented growth in data usage, businesses require
powerful computing solutions that can deliver scalable and resilient
performance to run IT's most mission-critical applications. The
new Intel® Itanium® processor 9500 series is more than twice as
powerful as the previous generation, making it ideal for today's most
demanding workloads, including business analytics, database, and
large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. Systems
based on Intel's (News - Alert) Itanium processors run in more than three-quarters of
the World's Global 100 companies across industries such as aerospace,
energy, life sciences and telecommunications. With the Intel Itanium
processor 9500 series, these industries will benefit from a leap in
performance and an increase in world-class reliability, availability and
serviceability (RAS) capabilities.
"In a world where businesses are increasingly dependent on IT for their
competitive advantage, more and more business applications are
rightfully called 'mission critical'; they must be always available,
highly responsive and extremely reliable. It's for precisely these
computing workloads that we've developed the Intel Itanium 9500
processor," said Diane Bryant, vice president and general manager of
Intel's Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. "Built on a new
microarchitecture and providing breakthrough performance, the Intel
Itanium 9500 processor family signals Intel's ongoing commitment to
deliver unparalleled reliability, availability and scalability to meet
the critical application demands across all industries."
Enterprise Performance with World-Class Availability
Containing 3.1 billion transistors, the Intel Itanium processor 9500
series is Intel's most sophisticated general purpose processors to date.
It supports up to twice as many cores (8 instead of 4) than the
previous-generation processor, packs up to 54 MB of on-die memory, and
enables up to 2 TB of low voltage DIMMs in a four-socket configuration.
The speed of the processor increased 40 percent over the previous
generation in lower power configurations. The new frequencies range from
1.73 GHz and a power level of 130 watts, to 2.53 GHz at a power level of
170 watts.
Delivering the highest levels of Intel Itanium performance, the new
processors enable highly scalable deployments with world-class
availability for data-intensive applications where downtime is not an
option. These include ERP, supply chain management and customer
relationship management (CRM) software.
Modular Development Model Provides More Flexibility
In 2010, Intel introduced its common platform strategy that allows Intel
Itanium and Intel Xeon processors to utilize common platform ingredients
including chipsets, interconnects and memory. This strategy gives Intel
the ability to cascade the strength of Intel Itanium RAS features to
benefit the Intel Xeon processor E7 family, and allows Intel Itanium to
further extract the efficiencies and value of higher volume economics.
For the next-generation Intel Itanium product family, code-named
"Kittson," Intel will employ an innovative model for Intel Itanium and
Intel Xeon development called "Modular Development Model." The model
will extend the common platform strategy by sharing silicon-level design
elements and socket compatibility. The result for Intel is an even more
sustainable path to bring future Itanium processors to market. In
addition, OEMs will be able to develop one single motherboard platform
for both architectures.
Industry Support
Intel Itanium processors continue to maintain strong industry support
among systems makers such as Bull, Hitachi, HP, Inspur and NEC.
Enterprise applications are widely available from multiple vendors, such
as, Oracle, SAP, SAS (News - Alert), Sybase and Temenos, among other vendors that
underscore the ISV community's efforts to ensure the success of the
Intel Itanium mission-critical ecosystem.
"A mission-critical IT infrastructure with resiliency, scalability and
high availability is critical to the success of enterprises," said Ric
Lewis, vice president and interim general manager, Business Critical
Systems, HP. "The addition of the Intel® Itanium® processor 9500 series
to our newly enhanced HP Integrity and HP-UX portfolio provides
breakthrough performance, increased productivity and delivers on HP's
commitment to provide our customers with investment protection."
"NEC (News - Alert) has been working with Intel more than 15 years to build enterprise
servers based on Intel Itanium processors," said Kazuaki Iwamoto, vice
president and senior general manager of IT hardware operations unit, NEC
Corporation. "We are pleased to provide our customers with the new
enterprise servers based on Intel Itanium processor 9500 series for
their highly scalable and mission critical systems."
Pricing and Availability
The Intel Itanium processor 9500 series is available now and is priced
from $1,350 to $4,650 in quantities of 1,000 units.
Additional information including the product announcement presentation,
product data sheet and pictures are available here.
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The
company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the
foundation for the world's computing devices. Additional information
about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com
and blogs.intel.com.
Intel, Intel Itanium and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel
Corporation in the United States and other countries.
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
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Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been
optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance
tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific
computer systems, components, software, operations and functions.
Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary.
You should consult other information and performance tests to assist
you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the
performance of that product when combined with other products.
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Configuration: Intel labs testing comparing Intel Itanium
processor 9560 vs. Intel Itanium processor 9350, resulting in
2.44x performance scaling. For more information, go to http://www.intel.com/performance.
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Intel® HT Technology available on select Intel® processors.
Requires an Intel® HT Technology-enabled system. Consult your
system manufacturer. Performance will vary depending on the
specific hardware and software used. For more information
including details on which processors support HT Technology, visit http://www.intel.com/info/hyperthreading.
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Relative performance is calculated by assigning a baseline value of
1.0 to one benchmark result, and then dividing the actual benchmark
result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark
results of each of the other platforms, and assigning them a
relative performance number that correlates with the performance
improvements reported.
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Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer
systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance
of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in
system hardware or software design or configuration may affect
actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of
information to evaluate the performance of systems or components
they are considering purchasing. For more information on
performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel
Performance Benchmark Limitations.
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