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Intel's Big Chip

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-so-micro-after-all dept.

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"

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  1. Straight from the article... by NOT-2-QUICK · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Straight from the articled in reference to the size of the new chip:

    "Another analyst said, 'Jesus, that's big.'"

    What a great quote...simple and to the point. What would we ever do with out descriptive investigative journalism and technical expertise of this nature!!! ;-)

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    Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
  2. And as usual, it's not the size of the chip, by Aexia · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it's how well you use it that's important.