Intel applies to the Itanium family of processors the same recipes that have participated in the success of its range of processors X86 extension of the family, incorporating new features and lower power consumption, although the pace of renewal of the range n ' is not as high!
The new series 9100, the sixth generation of Intel Itanium-clocked up to 1.66 GHz, with a bus at 667 MHz principal, and an overall energy 104 Watts-no exception to the rule, and offers up to 20% performance gains against its predecessors (9000) ...
Two major new features have been integrated into the processor:
- DBS (Demand-Based Switching) can save energy during periods of low activity by modulating the power consumption in terms of solicitations;
- Lockspeed, active at the level of hearts, is reinforcing the RAS characteristics of a server by ensuring consistency of the results of treatment for the hearts and processors by improving the integrity and reliability of data by eliminating application error codes that have not been detected. This feature was available so far only in the socket.
