Intel will invest $10 billion to strengthen the Itanium server market

This week, held in San Francisco Intel Developer Forum, said the Intel Itanium processor in order to promote the sales in the next 5 years, Intel Solutions Alliance will invest $10 billion for Itanium market and technology development, to improve the specialized in Itanium GCC or GNU Compiler Collection. Open source organization The Gelato Federation will be specifically responsible for the application of Linux products in the management of security products.

The compiler is very important for the safe, it can be manually written software into a computer instruction. One of the outstanding features of the Intel and HP co processor is that it can schedule instructions in advance, so that the chip can handle multiple tasks simultaneously on a single frequency.

The Gelato Federation said in a statement, the main task of this program is to improve the performance of compiler directives and other arrangements, the ultimate goal is to optimize the GCC compiler to support security solutions.