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Intel's Big Chip
DeadBugs writes "News.com has an article about the size of the upcoming revision for the Itanium. The "McKinley" chip will be 464 square millimeters which would make it one of the largest ever produced. Most of this is due to the 64 bit registers and 3MB of Level 3 Cache. There is also a link to an article about "Chivano" an Itanium which will include concepts from the Alpha architecture"
Is this the start of the manly "Mine is bigger than yours" battle?
Our new CPU is so big it will CRUSH the competition... No, really. We mean it quite literally :)
if Pentiums cost $50 to produce, will these cost 6x as much as a Pentium?
hmmm... sorry Intel, I'll stick to AMD till I hit the lotto, or have some other good reason to spend money like it was going out of style.
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Nope. I'm already moving on this issue, with the assistance of several eager venture capitalists.
We're going to start up a business modifying Sears deep freezers, providing a means of placing a PC directly into it.
Although your entire computer system will be the size of a bathtub and double your electric bill, you WILL be able to use PC's based on these new CPU's.
We're also going to figure out how to work rain forest defoliation into the process.
..perhaps we're trying to get back to the good ol' days when you could walk around inside your computer....
or maybe they're taking the term "big iron" a little too seriously..
At that size, a smallish mug should fit nicely on it. No use wasting all that heat!
/me looks over at the powermac's 1ghz dual G4's with 2MB cache each already selling. /me shrugs. nothing to see here.
"464 square millimeters which would make it one of the largest ever produced....due to the 64 bit registers." 464^.5=21.54mm a side.
64bits/21.54mm=2.97 bits/mm
They've GOT to start using smaller wavelengths!
Once upon a mid-day dreary, while I plodded, weak and weary,
Through an informative article about a truly massive core,
While I nodded, the newsfeed was slashdotted, suddenly there came a tapping,
As if FedEx gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door,
"Prob'ly FedEx," I muttered, "with boxes of reminders;
reminders of the law of Gordon Moore."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
4ghz of Hot P4 Action
I'm sorry, but I just got the mental image of the geek pr0n site that would use this tagline!
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