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'''Montecito''' is the code-name of a major release of [[Intel]]'s [[Itanium|Itanium 2]] [[central processing unit|Processor]] Family (IPF), which implements the ''Intel Itanium architecture'' on a dual-core processor.  It was officially launched by Intel on July 18, 2006, as the "Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor". According to Intel, Montecito doubles performance versus the previous, single-core Itanium 2 processor, and reduces power consumption by about 20%.[http://www.intel.com/products/processor/itanium2/index.htm]<!-- *** This link is broken. It redirects to a page that does not discuss power reduction.  Can someone fix it? *** --> It also adds multi-threading capabilities (two threads per core), a greatly expanded cache subsystem (12 MB per core), and silicon support for virtualization.