Intel has just officially introduced their first Quad-core processor called the the Itanium 9300-series. This processor has two billion transistors and four cores which has doubling and able to reach 8x of interconnect bandwidth, 5x of memory bandwidth and 7x of memory capacity with DDR3 components. Itanium 9300 Quad-core processor is claimed as Intel’s newer generation of in-hardware virtualization which could improve better reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features. It because Intel has equipped this processor with Intel’s enhanced Hyperthreading Technology. The Itanium 9300 CPU will start shipping this May, for 1,000-chip batches the processor will be offered at $946 to $3,838.

[Electronista]