Vendors line up behind Itanium

摘要

When Intel rolls out the third generation of its Itanium processor as expected today, it will be greeted by growing vendor momentum behind 64-bit computing, but enterprise customers are still on the fence when it comes to bringing in the more powerful machines to support key applications and networks. The launch of the latest version of Itanium 2, code-named Madison, comes with widespread vendor support, a marked change from earlier Itanium releases, when HP and Unisys were the primary companies to roll out products using the 64-bit Intel chip. This time Dell will announce an Itanium 2-based product, and IBM, which waited nearly a year before rolling out a server based on Intel's second-generation Itanium chip (code-named McKinley), will have two new servers running the Madison processor.