THE VP of Intel's digital enterprises group told the INQ this morning that the Itanium microprocessor is starting to make waves in the corporate enterprise market.
Kirk Skaugen, of the servers platform group, showed a slide which claimed the Itanium processor was eating into Sun and IBM Power shares, based on "customer revenues".
He also said that since the fourth quarter of 2003, applications for the Itanium family had grown to 5900 by the end of 2005.
Skaugen claimed that Itanium systems had been deployed in the top 100 companies worldwide, and that a recent French government installation had deployed what was the world's fastest supercomputer using 9000 of the CPUs.
He also said that Intel is on track for the introduction of its delayed "Montecito" dual core Itaniums - probably around the middle of this year. Montvale and Tukwila are described as "future platforms" post 2006.
On the enterprise MP front, Paxville will be followed by Tulsa dual core, Tigerton and Donnington, with Dempsey dual core Xeons followed by Woodcrest dual core processors. There will also be a low voltage version of the Woodcrest dual core microprocessor.
Kirk Skaugen, of the servers platform group, showed a slide which claimed the Itanium processor was eating into Sun and IBM Power shares, based on "customer revenues".
He also said that since the fourth quarter of 2003, applications for the Itanium family had grown to 5900 by the end of 2005.
Skaugen claimed that Itanium systems had been deployed in the top 100 companies worldwide, and that a recent French government installation had deployed what was the world's fastest supercomputer using 9000 of the CPUs.
He also said that Intel is on track for the introduction of its delayed "Montecito" dual core Itaniums - probably around the middle of this year. Montvale and Tukwila are described as "future platforms" post 2006.
On the enterprise MP front, Paxville will be followed by Tulsa dual core, Tigerton and Donnington, with Dempsey dual core Xeons followed by Woodcrest dual core processors. There will also be a low voltage version of the Woodcrest dual core microprocessor.