Analyst firm IDC has revealed that contrary to hitherto negative publicity, the Intel Itanium processor-based server market is now entering a strong growth phase.
Intel is expected to use next week’s Intel Developer Forum to announce production of Dempsey, the first major Xeon server chip to use dual processing cores.
Virtualisation will be one of the big themes at next week's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, along with the growing challenge of how to cool servers.