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HP Shows Off PA-8800 SMP-On-A-Chip CPU Plans
Eric^2 writes: "At last week's MicroProcessor Forum, HP's David J. C. Johnson unveiled the details of HP's latest RISC processor destined to redefine performance in Server-Class processors. Following a relatively simple strategy, the PA-8800 processor combines two PA-8700 cores on a single chip to enable symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) on a single processor. Aside from bumping the core speed up to an initial 1 GHz, enhancements include the addition of combined 35 MB L1+L2 cache. The article contains the full text. AMD, please steal an idea..."
...a Furbeowulf cluster of these things!
TO BUY A NEW CAR WOULD MAKE YOU SEXUALLY ATTRACTIVE.
In news today, a small chunk of Austin TX vaporized when an engineer tripped over a Thermaltake vortex containment field, causing an experimental single-chip SMP AMD processor to go critical in its 1024 pin socket...