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[chipguy]

You claimed Montecito was not originally dual core.

"Intel Corp. has pulled in its dual-core processor efforts, altering the design of the Itanium 2 successor, "Montecito"."

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,831909,00.asp


"As IBM continued to show price/performance leadership in the Unix server space with its dual-core Power4 processors, and HP and Sun Microsystems readied their own dual-core RISC processors, Intel had a conversion of sorts, it killed off Chivano and pushed out the "Montecito" kickers to the Madisons to 2005, but decided to make them a dual-core chip, thereby getting dual-core processors to market almost a year earlier than planned."

http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug050604-story02.html