Quad core Itanium
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 16, 2002 at 3:14:41 PM
That's alot of transistors in there, over a billion. With a large cache and four cores, this chip will be something... If it comes out.
And you'll try to play Quake on it...
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Crawford did not disclose specific plans for such a processor, though he said Intel will be able to design and build a 1-billion-transistor microprocessor using 65-nanometer process technology by 2007.
Crawford went on to describe a hypothetical processor that would contain four Itanium 2 cores and 12 to 16 megabytes of shared cache memory, all connected through a leaf interconnect scheme. Each Itanium 2 processor would contain about 120 million transistors while the cache would carry 700 million to 950 million transistors, bringing the total transistor budget to well over 1 billion, he said.
And you'll try to play Quake on it...