Intel is just about ready to launch "Montecito" - the dual-core Itanium 2 processor for servers - sometime within this month according to sources close to the company. Montecito is widely seen by industry observers as Intel's attempt at regaining its technological dominance in the server space. Montecito is expected to offer improved performance with less power consumption. However, some analysts are unsure whether Montecito will make any difference in Itanium sales because three out of the four largest server vendors either have no Itanium products or any plans of manufacturing Itanium-based products. So far, Intel declined to confirm the date.