Montecito is the code-name of a major release of Intel's Itanium 2 Processor Family (IPF), which implements the Intel Itanium architecture on a dual-core processor.
According to Intel, Montecito doubles performance versus the previous, single-core Itanium 2 processor, and reduces power consumption by about 20%.
On October 25, 2005, Intel announced that the first dual-core Itanium processor would be delayed until "the middle of next year."
[3] Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine Montecito was launched on July 18, 2006.
At the time of launch, the following models and pricing were available: There are no plans for additional Montecito processors; the successor, Montvale was released in late 2007.