Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor delivers new levels of flexibility, reliability, performance, and cost-effective scalability for your most data-intensive business and technical applications. With double the performance of yesterday's Intel Itanium 2 processors, the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor provides more reasons than ever to migrate your business-critical applications off RISC and legacy mainframe systems and onto cost-effective Intel architecture servers.