New Delhi: Intel Corporation on June 30 introduced new Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and Intel Xeon processors MP, further strengthening Intel's products for high-end enterprise computing.

These processors set a new precedent for world-class performance and breadth and scale of systems. This builds on the broad choice of software and operating systems and architectural strengths that have made Intel processors the choice for the majority of server deployments.

"The combination of our two enterprise architectures has addressed the diverse needs of enterprise computing from top to bottom," said Ketan Sampat, President, Intel India. "These new Itanium 2 processors and Intel Xeon processors MP deliver world-class performance and price-performance, strengthening Intel's leadership over competitive enterprise solutions."

More than 85 per cent of servers shipping today are based on Intel architecture (superscript) according to industry analysts. Today's new products extend Intel's strength in multi-processor, business-critical server deployments, commonly referred to as the high end of a company's computing data center. Servers with four or more processors accounted for more than 60 per cent of the total server market revenue in 2002, according to analysts.

The Intel Xeon processor MP continues to deliver scalability with leading price-performance for the enterprise application and mid-range data tier, including business logic, application servers and databases.

The Itanium processor family delivers industry-leading performance, price-performance and flexibility for large-scale, data center applications. These include large databases, enterprise resource planning and business intelligence applications that require maximum CPU resource utilization, support for large numbers of users, massive data sets or higher memory capacity.