Intel: Tukwila delayed, 12,000 optimized programs

According to PC World, the first Tukwila or next generation Itanium will finally not arrive until early 2009 when it was previously a question of late 2008.

You may recall it is engraved in 65nm, has four cores on a single die, 30 MB of cache for a total of 2 billion transistors and should function at frequencies as high as 2 GHz. There is still HyperThreading, but the memory controller is integrated to the processor while the latter is relayed to the chipset via QuickPath Interconnect, which will also be used in the Nehalem.

Note that according to the Itanium Solutions Alliance which consists of Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hitachi, HP, Intel, NEC, SGI, Unisys, BEA, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, SAS and Sybase, there are now more than 12,000 applications and tools available for the Itanium platform. The only thing is that its market share is still remains extremely low and there will have to be new cores, the sincere and massive support of developers and a lot of time for this Santa Clara giant’s high end server solution to attain its objectives.