SAN FRANCISCO -- While Intel Corp. is ramping up a pair of 64-bit microprocessors, the company will shortly sample two other chips for high-end servers, including the code-named Deerfield and Madison products, according to a company executive at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) here.
At present, Intel is shipping its current 64-bit processor--dubbed Itanium, which was co-developed by the company and Hewlett-Packard Co. at a reported cost of $1 billion.
By mid-2002, the company will deliver in volumes the follow-on processor to Itanium. Known as McKinley, the 0.18-micron chip has been sampling in the market for the past year, according to Intel. The company described the chip in detail in recent weeks (see Feb. 4 story ).
At about the same time, Intel will begin sampling the two follow-on, 64-bit processors to McKinley, code-named Deerfield and Madison. Both chips will begin sampling "in the summer," said Mike Fister, vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Platforms Group at Intel of Santa Clara. On Monday, Fister outlined the roadmap for the company's 64-bit chip line (see Feb. 25 story ).
"Right now, we are saying Deerfield and Madison will begin sampling in the second half of this year," Fister said in an interview with SBN at a press event here on Monday.
Both Deerfield and Madison are 0.13-micron versions of McKinley, Fister said. The Deerfield 64-bit processor is a low-power chip geared for dual-processor applications. The chip is only 70-80 Watts; in comparison, McKinley runs at 130 Watts.
Madison is a higher-end, 64-bit processor, with 3-to-6-megabits of cache, according to Fister. Both Deerfield and Madison are expected to be shipped in volumes in 2003, he said.
Then, in 2004, Intel will deliver Montecito, which is a 0.090-micron version of its 64-bit processor line, he added.
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