Intel Says New Chips to Have Two Processors

September 17, 2003 | Source: Reuters

Intel plans two new chips that will have two or more processors on a single piece of silicon, boosting the performance of corporate server computers: a 32-bit Xeon server processor MP, code-named “Tulsa,” its first dual-core chip, and a new 64-bit Itanium server chip, code-named “Tanglewood.”

Also planned:

  • An Itanium processor, code-named “Montecito,” the first chip with one billion transistors, targeted for production in 2005.
  • A wafer containing chips made with 65 nanometer process, in production in 2005.
  • 45 nanometer process chips in 2007; 32 nanometer process chips in 2009; and, in 2011, 22 nanometer process chips, which will have transistor space smaller than the width of a DNA molecule.