Now that "Nehalem" is no longer under
Intel's hat, after its March 30 launch, there are a couple of
housekeeping issues to take care of.
First of all, what's up with Intel’s Itanium platform?
The thorny question of Itanium-based servers
came up at the Nehalem launch, held at Intel headquarters in Santa
Clara, Calif. Intel's Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general
manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, said Nehalem was the most
important processor since the Pentium Pro, which was announced nearly
10 years ago.
Gelsinger also said that he expects not to make a similar
announcement for another 10 years. Gelsinger did mention a couple of
upcoming milestones for the Itanium platform, but it was clear that the
focus now and for the foreseeable future is on Nehalem-based systems
development.
Speaking of the near future, much of Nehalem's whiz-bang power
efficiency, compute productivity and virtual machine workload migration
was made possible using VMware’s ESX 4.0, which is still in beta.
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