Here is a qualification sample of the very expensive Itanium² based on the McKinley core. The McKinley was annouced un mid-2002 at clockspeed of 900 MHz and 1 GHz with 1.5 MB or 3 MB L3 cache. This QS CPU is a 1 GHz McKinley with 3 MB L3 cache, priced $4226 at launch !