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Itanium Update

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the three-megs-of-L3-cache dept.

NegaMaxAlphaBeta writes: "For those of you interested in Intel's Itanium 64 bit processor, EETimes has a nice update article to let us know what's happening with this beast. With an 8 stage pipeline, as opposed to the 20 stage pipeline in the P4, clock frequencies are obviously not as high (~1 GHz). Other notable numbers extracted from the article: 130 Watts power consumption, 328 registers, 6 MB of onchip L3 cache ... quite nice (well, not the power thing). I'm sure many people can appreciate 64 bit integer ops; for me, it means single instruction xor for the 64 bit hash codes used in chess transposition tables."

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  1. What a dog by nagora · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This thing is garbage. The power and the insane complexity of writing a decent compiler for its instruction set just makes me wonder what Intel were thinking. Not to mention the speed.

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  2. no one asked for a history lesson you karma slut by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why don't you save the faggoty ass history lesson for your gay lover becuase everyone already knows this shit, you pathetic attempt at a +3 informative is not gonna work you sickening whore.

  3. Excuse me? by x136 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    A hundred and thirty watts?!? For just the chip?

    Holy frickin' crap! I've got whole computers that use less juice than that!

    "I'm sorry, sir. that 400 watt power supply is insufficient to run your new Itanium. You will have to buy at least a 1.2 kilowatt power supply..."

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  4. Re:The consumer will never see an IA64 processor. by thogard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Servers and high end workstations are a dead market. The only people buying high end boxes these days are gamers.