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Intel's Answer to AMD's Hammer - Yamhill

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-a-city-in-oregon dept.

bdolan writes: "Today's San Jose Mercury News is reporting that Intel is going to put a 64 bit architecture extension in upcoming Pentiums if it turns out the Itanium doesn't take off. Hmm. Apparently they intend to only turn this on if AMD's 64 bit processor make major inroads against the Itanium architecture. Aren't we glad that competition is keeping everyone on their toes."

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  1. Multiprocessor? by johnburton · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I always wondered why they didn't just put three or four processors on a single chip and have instance multiprocessing. I'm sure they would be able to share some of the components that way and reduce the transistor count below what several separate cpus would costs.

    And interprocessor communication and cache coherency control would all be on the same chip and so probably easier than normal multiprocessor design.

    There is probably a good reason I don't know about so it's a good thing I don't design cpus for a living.

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