Most major system vendors have shown prototype Itanium servers, and Microsoft, Novell and Linux vendors are working on 64-bit operating systems. Intel will also make manufacturing changes next year. It will change from .18 to .13-micron manufacturing technology and roll out a chipset called Gallatin, which will be used with McKinley and other future processors. Gallatin will operate at 2 GHz and be released in 2002. The .13 micron technology is a measure of the size of the smallest feature on a chip.
Smaller features allow the chip to operate at higher clock speeds and use less power.
Versions of the Pentium III shipping today use a .18 micron production process. Meanwhile, Intel has been slow to supply vendors with sufficient quantities of the Pentium III Xeon. Related links Deni Connor is a senior editor at Network World covering storage, SANs, Novell and Novell-related products. Servers archive Past issues of Network World on Servers. Feedback Tell us your thoughts on this article or the issues raised in it.