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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. uP j00rZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Frist Prost n166az!!!

  2. Re:What a dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you're garbage.

  3. Re:Any support for virtualization? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anybody know if my dick will be slappping you in the face?

  4. Think of the acronym possibilities by vanguard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is cool. It's like SMP on a chip. Guess we'll call it SUP (Symmetric Uni Processing) .

    At work I'll be running WUSUP (Windows Under Symmetric Uni Processing). Of course, I'll pronounce it Waaazzzzzup. :-)

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  5. Re:What a relief! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Who the fuck do you think you are prosting an ON TOPIC frist prost?????

  6. Ridiculous power consumption by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Jesus Christ!

    I read the posts above and no-one criticised the insane power consumption of this beast.

    The environment will thank you for running a 130 Watt processor...

    1. Re:Ridiculous power consumption by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Shut up tree hugger, someone should bash your hippy head in with a nightstick.

    2. Re:Ridiculous power consumption by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      How the hell is this off-topic?!

      It deals with the processor and its power consumption and is certainly on-topic -- unless you're a Bushian enviroterrorist moderator, of course.

      This is moderator abuse at its worse. Please correct it.

    3. Re:Ridiculous power consumption by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Fuck off communist. You stupid tree huggers need to stop trying to ruin america. obviously we didn't beat you smelly flower fucks enough in the 60s.

    4. Re:Ridiculous power consumption by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Beat them. Hell, we should have shot all of them. They should have used flamethrowers instead of firehoses. We'd have a hell of a lot less problems now.

      And BTW, Molly Ivins has her head so far up her ass, I think it would take a couple firetrucks and the jaws of life to pull it out.

  7. fuck you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    command taco is the biggest homo

  8. haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh yes it's great, every day that goes by VA Linux gets a little closer to bankruptcy.

  9. G4 kicks butt. by gowmc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Half the people here are excited about 64 bits. Some people think that 32 is fine.
    If 32 bits is in the GameBoy advance (http://www.gameboyadvance.com/system/index.html), why would it be good enough for a computer?

    If 64 bits is in the Nintendo 64, why would even THAT be good enough for a new processor?

    If 128 bits is in the Dreamcast, why would you buy a computer with less bits?

    This is where I am happy to be one of the few people who can say, that their computer has more bits than the Itanium processor. Sure my computer is a few years old, but is still going fast at 400Mhz. That's the beauty of the G4. They are still fast, even when they are 2 years old and only 1/4 the speed of the fastest top of the line G4. If you don't believe me, check this out: http://www.apple.com/g4

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  10. Re:Thanks dude, I just sent this to Bjarne Stroust by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Too bad you misspelled his address.