Intel still plagued by delays, to postpone Madison 9M

"As indicated previously, the Madison 9M will have a 9MB L3 cache but it will run at a clock speed of 1.6GHz, instead of the originally planned 1.7GHz, said sources at Taiwan server makers.

The delay has raised doubts about Intel’s plan to launch a dual-core version, codenamed Montecito, for its Itanium 2 server line in the third quarter of next year, the sources noted."
Dual Core is where the future is, much like SMP back in the days of old.

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