By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
June 26, 2003, 5:40 PM PT

IBM is expected to announce on Monday several new servers based on Intel chips, including two Itanium systems and a top-end Xeon system with 32 processors.

The servers are the high-water mark thus far in IBM's years-long "X Architecture" plan to endow its Intel servers with some of the capabilities of its higher-end server lines, notably its venerable but expensive mainframes. Intel's Itanium processor is geared for higher-end "big iron" systems that handle demanding data-processing chores where IBM has long been top dog.

IBM's x450 has four of the 1.5GHz Itanium 2 6M processors--code-named Madison--that Intel is expected to announce Monday. IBM had already begun selling its x450 system in April with the earlier 1GHz "McKinley" version of Itanium, but Big Blue put that system on hold after an NEC server customer found a glitch in the chip...

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