Intel describes billion-transistor four-core Itanium processor

[Adul]

From EEtimes

SAN JOSE, Calif. ? Intel Corp. today (Oct. 15) described how it could combine four Itanium 2 cores that share a large cache memory to create a processor with more than 1 billion transistors.

In a keynote address here at the Microprocessor Forum, Intel fellow John Crawford said such a design is "imminently doable" from a die-size and manufacturing standpoint and that "we would expect something of this nature coming out."

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All i can say is damn! 😛

 

[MadRat]

Hammer's Opteron-MP design is going to force new strides in multiprocessing from Intel. I'd be surprised if this isn't done in 2003 as a demonstration of Itanium 3.

 

[miniMUNCH]

IBM already sells "two core" chips with quad core chips a trigger pull away if necesary.

Their new PowerPC chips, to be released shortly, will probably also sport this technology for higher end applications...Apple, it is rumored, will be adopting these chips, or their siblings, to be the early successor to the G5 (possibly as early as Q3/4 2003).