Intel Itanium 9300 processor launched in Egypt

"The server market in Egypt makes up to 20-25% of our business and we expect to see 20% year on year growth. Servers deliver energy and operational efficiency and benefits to business which is in line with cost savings. Refreshing the PC cycle is crucial for enterprises this year as we move away from the downturn,"

said Hazem Amer, Intel Egypt Enterprise Business Development Manager.

"Customers need a flexible technology infrastructure that can efficiently and quickly meet changing mission-critical demands," he added. "Intel's Itanium processor 9300 series, combined with HP Integrity servers, helps customers achieve new levels of scalability and resiliency with advanced virtualization capabilities to meet those needs."

With the Gartner Group predicting a 650% growth in IT data over the next 5 years, businesses need increasingly powerful and scalable enterprise servers. The two-billion transistor Itanium processor 9300 series meets this need head on with twice as many cores as its predecessor (four versus two), eight threads per processor (through enhanced Intel Hyper-Threading Technology), more cache, up to 800% the interconnect bandwidth, up to 500% the memory bandwidth, and up to 700% the memory capacity using-industry standard DDR3 components.

The Itanium 9300 processor employs the second generation of Intel Virtualization Technology to improve performance and robustness. Its Intel 7500 chipset can directly assign I/O devices to virtual machines, further boosting efficiency.

Built for the future of mission-critical computing

Intelligent Energy Efficiency

An enhanced form of Demand-Based Switching (DBS) lowers power consumption when utilization is low. Intel Turbo Boost Technology automatically senses and adapts to provide the right performance boost when needed, and to conserve power when it is not.

Mission-critical computing for the next decade

Original Equipment Manufacturer systems based on the Intel Itanium processor 9300 series will be binary-compatible with existing software and can provide major performance improvements without the need for additional software optimization.

'Poulson,' codename for the next Itanium processor, will add an advanced multi-core architecture, instruction-level and hyper-threading enhancements, new reliability features and more.

Future Intel Itanium processors in development today are being designed for socket and binary compatibility with Intel Itanium 9300 processor-based systems and software. They are designed to scale in performance and capacity through component upgrades, without software recompilation, so customers can continue to expand and adapt their mission-critical computing systems.