Intel today officially announced its Itanium 2 9000 series formerly known as Montecito. The initial models are as follows: 9010 (1.6 GHz, 533 MHz FSB and 6 MB of L3 cache), 9015 (1.4 GHz, 400 MHz and 12 MB), 9020 (1.42 GHz, 533 MHz and 12 MB), 9030 (1.6 GHz, 533 MHz and 8 MB), 9040 (1.6 GHz, 533 MHz and 18 MB) and 9050 (1.6 GHz, 533 MHz and 24 MB). All processors are made on a 90-nm process and feature Virtualization (VT) and Cache Safe (CST) technologies. Power consumption is rated at 104 W, except for the 9010 (75 W), which is a single-core CPU lacking Hyper-Threading capability.