Mike Fister, 'the Godfather of Itanium' (yes, really), and head of Intel's Enterprise Platforms Group, coloured in some server CPU and chipset roadmaps at IDF yesterday.
First up the Itanium 2: The Deerfield low-voltage Itanium 2 - it's half the power of Madison - will make its public debut in 2H' 03. Chipzilla is touting Deerfield a tad downmarket - into blades and the like, but no prices yet. Next up is a new mobo, the Tiger 2, which uses Madison and the E8870 chipset - the same as for the other members of the Itanium 2 family. We'd like to give you a shipping date, but if Fister, supplied one, we missed it. Sorry.
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