2CPU.com » News » October 2007 » Intel to boost single-core performance

Remember that processor that was loved by few, hated by many? Yes, Intel is back to the drawing board to improve the Itanium platform by improving the single core performance.

"There are some workloads that you just need to have single-core performance in order to carry and to get the job done, and those are the kinds of things we are targeting," he said. "Not everything can scale and, truth be told, if you don't address the single-core performance segment, you're going to miss out on some opportunities."

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