Itanium

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Intel is about to release its new version of the Itanium processor:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/art ... rc=hm_list

2 billion transistors per chip.


Here are some puzzles so you can reconstruct the die pic:

http://two.flash-gear.com/npuz/puz.php? ... k=67846799

http://two.flash-gear.com/npuz/puz.php? ... k=51626236

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Another news report on this from DT:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10556

I found this interesting from the comments:

> "Tukwila processors have two billion transistors on the die..."

The average brain has around 100B neurons. At the current rate of growth, CPUs will exceed that number in transistor count by around the year 2024.

Not suggesting anything by it, but just food for thought.

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Intel is getting rid of Itanium 2.........

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/27/ ... m_2_brand/

.........by now simply calling them Itanium.

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A brief look at the tech and why companies use it:

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/20 ... tanium.ars

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HP paid Intel close to half a billion to keep producing Itanium........

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/20 ... p-itanium/

........and then bought the processors from Intel on top of that.