Product Features - Intel BX80569Q9550 - Core 2 Quad 2.83 GHz Processor Datasheet

Introduction
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Intel Intel Itanium Itanium
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Intel Itanium Processor Quad-Core 1.86-1.73 GHz with 24 MB L3 Cache 9350
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Intel Itanium Processor Quad-Core 1.73-1.60 GHz with 20 MB L3 Cache 9340
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Intel Itanium Processor Quad-Core 1.60-1.46 GHz with 20 MB L3 Cache 9330
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Intel Itanium Processor Quad-Core 1.46-1.33 GHz with 16 MB L3 Cache 9320
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Intel Itanium Processor Dual-Core 1.60 GHz Fixed Frequency with 10 MB L3 Cache 9310

Product Features

Quad Core
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— Four complete 64-bit processing cores on one
processor.
— Includes Dynamic Domain Partitioning.
Advanced EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction
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Computing) Architecture for current and future
requirements of high-end enterprise and technical
workloads.
— Provide a variety of advanced implementations of
parallelism, predication, and speculation,
resulting in superior Instruction-Level Parallelism
(ILP).
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Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
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— Two times the number of OS threads per core.
Wide, parallel hardware based on Intel
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architecture for high performance:
— Integrated on-die L3 cache of up to 24 MB; cache
hints for L1, L2, and L3 caches for reduced
memory latency.
— 128 general and 128 floating-point registers
supporting register rotation.
— Register stack engine for effective management
of processor resources.
— Support for predication and speculation.
Extensive RAS features for business-critical
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applications, for example:
— Machine check architecture with extensive ECC
and parity protection.
— On-chip thermal management.
— Built-in processor information ROM (PIROM).
— Built-in programmable EEPROM.
— Hot-Plug Socket
— Hot-add and hot removal.
— Double Device Data Correction (DDDC) for x4
DRAMs, plus correction of a single bit error.
— Single Device Data Correction (SDDC) for x8
DRAMs, plus correction of a single bit error.
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— Intel QuickPath Interconnect Dynamic Link
Width Reduction.
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— Intel QuickPath Interconnect Clock Fail-Safe
Feature.
— Intel QuickPath Interconnect (Intel
Add and Removal.
— DIMM Sparing, Memory Scrubbing, Memory
Mirroring, and Memory Migration.
— Architected firmware stack, including PAL and
SAL support.
— Directory-based and source-based coherency
protocol.
— Intel QPI poisoning, viral containment and
cleanup.
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Intel Itanium Processor 9300 Series and 9500 Series Datasheet
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Processor 9300 Series Processor 9300 Series
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Itanium
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QPI) Hot-
On-die Memory Controller
— Each memory controller supports two Intel
Scalable Memory Interconnects.
— Support for one Scalable Memory Buffer per Intel
Scalable Memory Interconnect; four Scalable
Memory Buffers per processor.
— High memory bandwidth, thus improved
performance.
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— 4.8 GT/s for the Intel
Buffer.
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Intel Virtualization Technology for virtualization for
data-intensive applications.
— Reduce virtualization complexity.
— Improve virtualization performance.
— Increase operating system compatibility.
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Intel Cache Safe Technology ensures mainframe-
caliber availability.
— Minimize L3 cache errors.
— Disable cache entries that have become hard
errors.
— Improve availability.
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High bandwidth Intel QuickPath Interconnect for
multiprocessor scalability:
— 4 full and 2 half width Intel QPI Links
— 4.8GT/s transfer rate.
— Systems are easily scaled without sacrificing
performance.
Features to support flexible platform environments:
— IA-32 Execution Layer supports IA-32 application
binaries.
— Bi-endian support.
— Processor abstraction layer eliminates processor
dependencies.
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7500 Scalable Memory
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