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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 relief! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm so relieved to find that this guy's chess program will now execute 0.0000000000000000003% faster.

  2. intel blows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  3. This calls for.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A NEWS PIECE!

    A FRICKING NEWS PIECE!

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  4. Re:What a dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    what are you a fucking spic or something?

  5. Re:What a dog by Lars+T. · · Score: 0, Troll

    All nice and stuff, but the Itanic is still just a hot dog. Maybe McKinley will be more usefull (for more than just a handfull of applications).

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    To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck

  6. Re:FASP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I and 3000 other NGO's agree. Those Kike's are a bunch of racist bastards.

  7. Itanium is fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Itanium is very fast. I like my computer to be fast so I would like to buy an Itanium computer.