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Intel Details Itanium "Poulson" Eight-Core Chip

50MB of on-die cache is rather considerable. Has got to help with those yields to. Die is large, but yields will be high because of cache/core redundancy, and ASP's will be high because of the market segment itself.
 
I'm no Analyst, but from what I can glean it looks like Intel has at least eeked out some Profit on Itanium. It certainly has been a dismal failure to meet expectations. Ironically x86-64, AMD's creation, has been much more successful, but more than that, x86-64 is Itanium's largest competitor.
 
-8 cores
-16KB L1 I and D, total 32KB per core
-512KB L2 I, 256KB L2 D per core
-32MB L3 split into 8 blocks
-Two 1.5MB Directory Caches

I'm guessing the rest(to fill up 50MB) is something we normally don't discuss. 😛
 
Soundmanred said:
It will run a Windows 8 silky and sexy smooth.
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Considering that MS already said it won't support Itanium in following releases.. that seems unlikely.

Not that many Itaniums ran MS Server (or Red Hat) anyway, but it still doesn't make the plattform look any more healthy.

RocksteadyDotNet said:
The guys that write the compilers must be hardcore.
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Oh certainly - those poor bastards aren't to be envied. Although certainly a nice challenge
 
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Voo said:
Considering that MS already said it won't support Itanium in following releases.. that seems unlikely.

Not that many Itaniums ran MS Server (or Red Hat) anyway, but it still doesn't make the plattform look any more healthy.
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x86 did alright for itself without the benefit of windows for a while too 😉
 
Idontcare said:
x86 did alright for itself without the benefit of windows for a while too 😉
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But you can't say that Windows (well MS) wasn't important in getting it where it's now - Wintel and so.

And sure I'm not saying that you need Red Hat or MS support for every processor and considering that the majority of Itaniums are used with HP's OS (umn whatever its name was) anyhow it may not matter much today. But I think it cements Itanium's role as a niche product for the highend server market (with fierce competition not just from the RISC machines but from it's smaller brother aka Xeon as well) that failed completely in the mass market. I just can't think that Intel is content with how the whole experiment turned out (and even if they're finally making some profit with it, they sunk billions in R&D into it; so from a business perspective hardly a wholesale success isn't?)


As an anecdote my university for example is using Itaniums right now for the computing center (nothing especially large, 1k cores or so) but it's pretty certain that for the next upgrade they will go with x64 CPUs and I've heard of similar decisions in other universities as well.
Obviously only pretty weak anecdotal evidence so make with it what you want 😉
 
Voo said:
But you can't say that Windows (well MS) wasn't important in getting it where it's now - Wintel and so.

And sure I'm not saying that you need Red Hat or MS support for every processor and considering that the majority of Itaniums are used with HP's OS (umn whatever its name was) anyhow it may not matter much today. But I think it cements Itanium's role as a niche product for the highend server market (with fierce competition not just from the RISC machines but from it's smaller brother aka Xeon as well) that failed completely in the mass market. I just can't think that Intel is content with how the whole experiment turned out (and even if they're finally making some profit with it, they sunk billions in R&D into it; so from a business perspective hardly a wholesale success isn't?)


As an anecdote my university for example is using Itaniums right now for the computing center (nothing especially large, 1k cores or so) but it's pretty certain that for the next upgrade they will go with x64 CPUs and I've heard of similar decisions in other universities as well.
Obviously only pretty weak anecdotal evidence so make with it what you want 😉
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Ever since release they've Projected Sales in the $10-20billion/yr range and repeated that projection annually. So far they've managed $4 billionish/yr. Still a decent chunk of change, but nowhere near what they wanted from it.
 
cheap used Itanium2 systems can be had on ebay. I've been tempted to buy one just to play around with, except the wife wouldn't be too happy with yet another computer on the premises...
 
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