Intel displays Madison at IDF
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 7, 2002 at 2:20:54 PM
The Madison is just an evolutionary upgrade to McKinley, thier 64-bit CPU line.
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Both of Monday's demonstrations highlight one feature of the Madison chips: They are "pin-compatible" with their Itanium 2 predecessors, meaning that a computer can easily be upgraded with faster chips. It also means that Itanium server designers such as Unisys, HEC, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, SGI and IBM don't have to start their server designs from scratch when each new processor arrives.