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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. Re:big chip... big fan by fobbman · · Score: 4, Troll

    Actually, according to this article over at The Inquirer Intel can now demo a 5GHz chip using the .13 micros process that can run at room temperature. That'd be interesting to see in action if it benches as well as a 5GHz chip should in comparison to current chips.