Intel says its new Itanium 2 server chip will live up to its name by providing twice the performance of the current Itanium.

The company on Wednesday released test results for its prototype Itanium 2 chips. But though the tests show promise, only time will prove whether the extra performance will be enough to lift the chip into the spot Intel has envisioned for it: the heart of high-end business servers everywhere.

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That's all well and good, but even if Itanium 2 is twice as fast as Itanium...

2 * 0 still equals 0.

Doubling the performance of a crappy chip isn't going to make it a market leader...

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Itanium sounds an afwul lot like Titanium, doesn't it? LoL They never give up.

Actually, to me (and a lot of others), it sounds more like Titanic. Hence the name...Itanic.

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Drew, you read the Inq too much

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