The Itanium 9500 series processor, codenamed Poulson, is the follow-on processor to Tukwila
and was released on November 8, 2012.
Under the terms of the agreements, HP has to pay for chips it gets from Intel,
while Intel launches Tukwila, Poulson, Kittson,
and Kittson+ chips in a bid to gradually boost performance of the platform.
Analyst David Kanter speculates that Poulson will use a new microarchitecture,
with a more advanced form of multi-threading that uses as many as two threads, to improve performance for single threaded and multi-threaded workloads.