Datasheet

Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 9000 and 9100 Series Datasheet 9
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 9000 and
9100 Series
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.6 GHz with 24 MB L3 Cache 9050
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.6 GHz with 18 MB L3 Cache 9040
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.6 GHz with 8 MB L3 Cache 9030
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.42 GHz with 12 MB L3 Cache 9020
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.4 GHz with 12 MB L3 Cache 9015
Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.6 GHz with 6 MB L3 Cache 9010
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.66 GHz with 24 MB L3 Cache 9150M
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.6 GHz with 24 MB L3 Cache 9150N
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.66 GHz with 18 MB L3 Cache 9140M
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.6 GHz with 18 MB L3 Cache 9140N
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.42 GHz with 12 MB L3 Cache 9120N
Dual-Core Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.66 GHz with 8 MB L3 Cache 9130M
Intel
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Itanium
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Processor 1.6 GHz with 12 MB L3 Cache 9110N
Product Features
 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
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Itanium
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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.
— Socket Level Lockstep
— Core Level Lockstep
 Intel
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Virtualization Technology for virtualization for
data-intensive applications.
— Reduces virtualization complexity.
— Improves virtualization performance.
— Increases operating system compatibility.
 Intel
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Cache Safe Technology ensures mainframe-
caliber availability.
— Minimize L3 cache errors.
 Outstanding Energy Efficiency.
— 20 percent less power than previous Intel
Itanium 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 533-MHz 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.
 667-MHz, 1.66-GHz, 3-load bus
a
— This feature enables increased bandwidth for
Enterprise and HPC.
 Demand Based Switching (DBS)
a
— Provides additional power management
capability.
a. This feature is applicable to only the 9100 series processors