Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor

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Customers see record performance ›

  "The new Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor ...
  will enable us to implement changes to the car design
  much more rapidly."

– Elmar Huebner
Manager of IT
   Toyota Motorsport

Double the performance. Enhanced reliability¹ ›

The new Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor provides more reasons than ever to migrate your business-critical applications off RISC and legacy mainframe systems to cost-effective Intel® standards-based architecture.

With double the performance, up to 2 times better energy efficiency,¹ and continued advancements in mainframe-class reliability with Intel® Cache Safe Technology and Enhanced Machine Check Architecture (MCA), Dual-Core Itanium 2-based servers can improve application performance and enable lower operating costs, while maintaining "always on" service level agreements.

Unmatched choice and flexibility¹ ›

Available from leading OEMs worldwide, such as HP, SGI, Unisys, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Bull, NEC, and Fujitsu Siemens, Dual-Core Itanium 2-based servers offer a larger choice of operating systems than any other 64-bit server, with support for Windows*, Linux*, HP NonStop*, OpenVMS*, HP-UX*, and more. And over 8,000 applications are available for Itanium-based systems from vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SAS, and BEA.

Dual-Core Itanium 2-based servers offer the flexibility, competitive pricing, and global industry support that RISC and legacy mainframe systems just can't match.

Optimized for business-critical computing ›

Get excellent price/performance and transaction speed for business analytics, databases, ERP, SCM, and other data-intensive applications. More than 70 percent of Fortune Global 100* companies have chosen Dual-Core Itanium 2-based servers for their most critical applications.

With extreme compute parallelism, up to 24 MB of on-die L3 cache, Intel® Virtualization Technology, and Hyper-Threading Technology, the new Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor handles vast amounts of data and users, data-intensive analytics, high-volume transactions, and complex calculations.

¹ Performance measured using OLTP (NT/SQL), SPECjbb2005, SPECCPU, Linpack, and SAP-SD. Intel Internal Measurement (March 2006) comparing system configurations of Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 1.6 GHz with 24 MB L3 cache to Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 1.6 GHz with 9 MB L3 cache. Actual performance may vary. See http://www.intel.com/performance/server/itanium2