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Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Quad Core: Energy Efficient Performance Datacenter Stability Breakthrough Performance 1 Better Density 4.5x single core Xeon 2.5x AMD’s best published +50% Intel’s best dual-core Mainframe class RAS features Live migration - UP, DP & MP Investment Protection Exceptional Performance/Watt Small 2P Form Factors High Performance per Sq Ft 80W mainstream quad-core 1 Intel internal measurement as of Oct 9, 2006 using SPECint_rate_base2000*. Results compare Xeon E5345 (CTN 2.33/1333/80W) with measured Xeon 5160 (WC 3.00/1333/80W), published Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Model 2220SE (2.80 SktF) and published 64bit Intel Xeon Processor3.60GHz with 2ML2 cache (Irw 3.6/ LH800/110W). Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance.

Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Platform Reliability Features Characteristic Typical Mainframe Typical RISC Intel Itanium ® 2 Platforms Intel Xeon ™ MP Platforms Intel Xeon ™ DP Platforms Cache ECC coverage Memory single device error correct Select vendors Memory retry on double-bit error  Error recovery on data bus (ECC)  Internal logic soft error checking Select vendorsMid ’06 Bad/poisoned data containment Select vendors Cache Reliability (Pellston) Mid ‘062H’06 Memory Sparing Memory mirroring  Hot Plug I/O (PCI-X, PCI express) Memory hot swap  Processor lockstep support  1 Lockstep is supported by selected vendors via enabled chipsets & platforms Real-Time Protection Fail Safe Systems On-line Repair Real-time cross-check Source:  = Intel leadership Intel Platforms : Reliability And Leadership

Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Affordable Technology 1 million units+ ** ** Source: Intel projections 1 Source: Intel. Pricing reflects 1k unit price to OEMs on December 10, 2006 Intel Quad Core is affordable and available today! 65nm manufacturing Dual-Die implementation Quad-Core Volume First 3 Quarters Production  Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture  Exceptional Software Scaling  Same Power Envelope  Outstanding Performance per Watt

Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. The Barcelona Saga - Performance 40-70% improvement over current DC Opteron* DC processors – Phil Hester, CTO 12/14/2006 Outperform Clovertown on a wide array of benchmarks – Randy Allan 1/23/ % better floating point and 70% better integer performance than current DC Opteron* processor based on simulations conducted in AMD’s labs - ISSCC Presentation 2/12/2007 Performance is in the speculation stage – Henri Richard 2/21/2007 Confusing Claims / Old Data 42% better than Clovertown on floating point – Mario Rivas 2/28/2007 Best Published AMD Opteron* DP result used as baseline – 11/29/06 Windows32 Linux64 40% Perf. over DC Opteron* 70% Perf. over DC Opteron* Based on AMD’s own public projections, increasing AMD’s best published results by 40 – 70% still does not catch Intel Quad-Core on most benchmarks Dual-Core Opteron 2220 – Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Model 2220SE (“2.80 GHz”); Dual-Core Opteron 2218 – Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Model 2218 (“2.60 GHz”); Dual-Core Opteron 275 – Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Model 275 (“2.20 GHz”);

Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Tick PRESLER · YONAH · DEMPSEY Tock CONROE  MEROM  CLOVERTOWN 65nm 2 YEARS 45nm 2 YEARS Tick PENRYN Tock NEHALEM 32nm 2 YEARS Tick WESTMERE Tock GESHER Process Technology Cadence for Sustained Leadership

Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Intel Breakthrough Technologies Delivering the Vision IT Value Business Value Time Dynamic Resource Pooling Consolidation Metering Software as Service Data Intensive Computing Compute IO Accelerators Energy Efficient Micro Architecture Rack – DC Power thermal Management Data Center Optimization Trusted Virtual Appliance

Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. 8 SWsoft and Intel Server Alignment   SWsoft on Quad Core Intel® Xeon® based servers – –Reliability and scalability with leading energy efficient performance – –Member of Intel’s Enabled Server Acceleration Alliance   SWsoft on Intel Itanium® 2-based Servers – –Advanced Virtualization and Workload Management – –Member of the Itanium Solutions Alliance Contact your hardware provider for SWsoft products on Quad Core Xeon evaluation systems Contact your hardware provider for SWsoft products on Quad Core Xeon evaluation systems

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Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. 10 The Next Big Advance for Itanium® Architecture  Next generation Itanium 2 processor - Montecito –Multi-core, multi-threading, 24MB cache –Significant performance jump with lower power –1.5-2x performance over Itanium 2 processor 9M –100W power envelope –Platform compatible with Itanium 2 processor  New features for increased platform value –Dynamic performance boost – Foxton Technology –Server power savings – Demand Based Switching –Cache reliability – Pellston Technology –Robust virtual partitioning – Virtualization Technology 4S Transaction Processing Relative Performance 1 ~ 1.5 ~ 1.7 ~ 3.4 Intel® Itanium® 2 Intel Itanium 2 - 6M Intel Itanium 2 - 9M Montecito Performance Power130W100W All products, dates, comparisons, and information are preliminary and subject to change without notice.

Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Intel® Virtualization Technology Evolution VMM Software Evolution Past No Hardware Support VMM software evolution over time with hardware support Software-only VMMs Binary translation Paravirtualization Device Emulation Simpler and more Secure VMMs through foundation of virtualizable ISAs Vector 3: I/O Focus Vector 1: Processor Focus Vector 2: Platform Focus … followed by on going evolution of support: Microarchitectural (e.g., lower VM entry/exit costs) Architectural (e.g., extended page tables – EPT) Improved CPU and I/O virtualization Performance and Functionality as VMMs exploit infrastructure provided by VT-x, VT-i, VT-d Today Infrastructure for I/O-device virtualization: DMA protection and remapping Interrupt remapping NIC enhancements Establish foundation for virtualization in the Intel® 64 and Itanium® architectures… Standards for I/O-device sharing: Natively sharable I/O devices Endpoint DMA-translation caching

Copyright © 2006, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective owners. All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice. Intel® ESAA SWSoft Solutions  One of the only 4 vendors with Virtualization solutions on Intel EPSD Servers delivered via ESAA –At present, SWsoft is the only vendor to provide Virtualization solution on Itanium platform through ESAA  26 of the 34 Validated Server Virtualization Solutions from ESAA are from SWsoft (Virtuozzo) –Dual-Core, Quad-Core and Itanium solutions –Single, Dual, and 4-Socket Server Systems –Blades, Rack, and Pedestal Systems  Solutions are available to ESAA members at: