IBM presents Itanium 2 servers in the beginning of 2003
IBM brings in the first quarter dad 2003 its first Itanium 2-servers on the market. The support of 'Piglet Blue' is a belangrijkse walk for chip manufacturer Intel.
The coming x440-server, that use makes of four Itanium 2-processors in combination with IBM EXA-chipset, undergoes currently yet a number of last tests. According to a spokesman then all ends is the production of large quantities servers 2002 possible, but considering the question, this becomes probable in the beginning of 2003.
The IBM-spokesman puts further that in the first or appearance second quarter Itanium 2-servers on the market come 'that the possibilities of the EXA-chipset complete utilize'. That holds in that it models appeared with at most 16 Itanium 2-processoren.
The new an important step forms Server in the gradual development of a complete bundle of hardware and software for Intels new Itanium-product line. This child of servers has until now closed not yet many impression made and it yet source just will last before the question really on course comes according to market investigation desk Gartner Dataquest. These number value world-wide sold servers on 50,000 in 2004 and 168,000 in 2006, a fraction of the million sold Xeon- and Pentium-chips.
The Itanium-line, that for years later on appeared then Intel originally had planned, has been designed to compete with with established high end-processors as a Suns UltraSparc. As for design and performances can that now, before the software sides have IBM, Intel and Microsoft now a partner agreement drawn. As a consequence of this can customers with complex concise applications of for instance JUICE, J. D. Edwards and Institute their software wanted to test on the new x440-systems.