
Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor 9000 Series Datasheet
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Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor 9000 Series
Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 1.6 GHz with 24 MB L3 Cache 9050
Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 1.6 GHz with 18 MB L3 Cache 9040
Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 1.6 GHz with 8 MB L3 Cache 9030
Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 1.42 GHz with 12 MB L3 Cache 9020
Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 1.4 GHz with 12 MB L3 Cache 9015
Intel Itanium 2 Processor 1.6 GHz with 6 MB L3 Cache 9010
Product Features
The Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 series delivers new levels of flexibility, reliability,
performance, and cost-effective scalability for your most data-intensive business and technical
applications. With double the performance of previous Intel Itanium 2 processors, the Dual-Core Intel
Itanium 2 processor 9000 series provides more reasons than ever to migrate your business-critical
applications off RISC and mainframe systems and onto cost-effective Intel architecture servers. The
Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 series provides close to triple the amount of L3 cache (24
megabytes), Hyper-Threading Technology for increased performance, Intel Virtualization Technology
for improved virtualization, Intel Cache Safe Technology for increased availability, and 20 percent
lower power consumption.
Dual-Core Itanium 2-based systems are available from leading OEMs worldwide and run popular 64-
bit operating systems such as Microsoft* Windows Server* 2003; Linux* from SuSE, Red Hat, Red
Flag, and other distributions; HP NonStop*; OpenVMS*; and HP-UX*. More than 7,000 applications
are available for Itanium 2-based systems, from vendors such as Microsoft, BEA, IBM, Ansys,
Gaussian, Symantec/Veritas, Oracle, SAP, and SAS. And with industry support growing and future
Dual Core
— Two complete 64-bit processing cores on one
processor.
EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing)
Technology for current and future requirements of
high-end enterprise and technical workloads
— Provide a variety of advanced
implementations of parallelism, predication,
and speculation, resulting in superior
Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP).
Hyper-Threading Technology
— Two times the number of OS threads per core
provided by earlier single-thread
implementations.
Wide, parallel hardware based on Intel Itanium
architecture for high performance:
— Integrated on-die L3 cache of up to 24MB;
cache hints for L1, L2, and L3 caches for
reduced memory latency.
— 128 general and 128 floating-point registers
supporting register rotation.
— Register stack engine for effective
management of processor resources.
— Support for predication and speculation.
Extensive RAS features for business-critical
applications:
— Full SMBus compatibility.
— Enhanced machine check architecture with
extensive ECC and parity protection.
— Enhanced thermal management.
— Built-in processor information ROM (PIROM).
—Built-in programmable EEPROM.
Intel Virtualization Technology for virtualization for
data-intensive applications.
— Reduce virtualization complexity.
— Improve virtualization performance.
— Increase operating system compatibility.
Intel Cache Safe Technology ensure mainframe-
caliber availability.
— Minimize L3 cache errors.
Outstanding Energy Efficiency.
— 20 percent less power than previous Intel
Itanium 2 processor.
— 2.5 times higher performance per watt.
High bandwidth system bus for multiprocessor
scalability:
— Up to 8.53GB/s bandwidth.
— 128-bit wide data bus.
— 50-bits of physical memory addressing and
64-bits of virtual addressing.
— Up to four physical processors on the same
system bus at 400 MHz or 533MHz data bus
frequency.
— Expandable to systems with multiple system
buses.
Features to support flexible platform environments:
— IA-32 Execution Layer supports IA-32
application binaries.
— Bi-endian support.
— Processor abstraction layer eliminates
processor dependencies.