The next generation of Itanium processors, codenamed Kittson, will be 32nm instead of 22nm produced. In addition, they are not compatible with future Xeon E7 sockets, in contrast to what Intel previously announced.
Without publicity Intel has the definition of its new Itanium-generation code-named Kittson adjusted. it appears from a notice on the site of the chipgigant. “Kittson will be on 32nm to be produced and is socket-compatible with the current Intel Itanium 9300/9500 platforms”, has been in place since 31 January. The communication is at odds with Intel’s announcement of november last year.
When had Intel the opposite partners still have a ‘Modular Development Model’, in which Kittson-Itaniums and future Xeons, a similar development would follow, and among other packages, and sockets were going to share while cores and other parts are still more to each other would grow. That turned out to be at the time of a roadmap where Xbit Labs, the hand knew. Also was up to now assumed that Kittson on Intel’s 22nm TriGate process produced would be. When the new Itanium-based generation is to be expected, is not known: previous roadmaps were speaking of 2014, but in front of The Register showed a spokesman of Intel to know that the communication on a product that is still two years in coming.
The announcement comes as a blow for the partners of Intel. Especially HP is one of the driving forces behind Itanium, but also Fujitsu, Bull, Inspur, and NEC still make mainframes with the chips. There have been reports that Intel develop Itanium is on a low has been put and earlier rumors spoke even of that Kittson is the last of the Itanium-based generation of 64bit server and hpc processors would be.
