The next 64-bit processor is codenamed McKinley. This will essentially be an enhanced Itanium running on an Intel 870 chipset, boasting even greater performance through larger amounts of cache and more Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs), which are critical in speeding up chip operations. This is scheduled for production at the end of 2001.
Following this in mid-2002 will be Madison and Deerfield. All thats confirmed about these processors is that theyll be produced using a 0.13-micron process and the former will offer larger amounts of Level 3 cache. Deerfield will be positioned as a value part in conjunction with Madison in the same way as Celeron and Pentium III compare today. Deerfield will most likely be the first 64-bit Intel CPU to be aimed at the desktop.
With IA-64, Intel is charting new territory for itself and its success in this area is by no means guaranteed. However, with its large resources and record to date, it would be grossly premature to discount its chances of dominating the universe of 64-bit computing within the next ten years.
64-bit Computing
The 64-bit question
Inside Itanium
The Competition