Intel Corp. Monday lifted the kimono on a new 64-bit enterprise server processor code-named Montecito to be built on its 0.09-micron process and introduced in 2004.
Mike Fister, Intel senior vice president and general manager of its Enterprise Platform group, told the Intel developers Forum here that Montecito will evolve with "new microarchitecture features that we will put into it," but didn't elaborate.
However, Nathan Brookwood, principal of Insight64 Market Research, Saratoga, Calif., said he believed the new server processor would be Intel's first 64-bit chip to use its new HyperThreading technology that essentially makes a singleprocessor perform equal to dual processors. Intel is introducing HyperThreading at IDF for its 32-bit Xeon server line.
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