Intel's Itanium processor launches are few and far between given that only so many need its specialized grunt, but that just makes any refresh so much larger - and its new Itanium 9500 certainly exemplifies that kind of jump. The chip centers around much more up-to-date, 32-nanometer Poulson architecture that doubles the cores to eight, hikes the interconnect speeds and supports as much as 2TB of RAM for very (very, very) large tasks. With the help of an error-resistant buffer, Intel sees the 9500 being as much as 2.4 times faster as the Tukwila-era design it's replacing.
Engadget , Intel launches 8-core Itanium 9500, teases Xeon E7-linked Kittson, Intel launches 8-core Itanium 9500, teases Xeon E7-linked Kittson
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