Dual Caches for Dual-core Chips

DominoTree writes "The dual-core chips that AMD and Intel plan to bring to market next year won't be sharing their memories. A version of Opteron coming in 2005 and Montecito, a future member of Intel's Itanium family also slated for next year, will both have two processor cores, the actual unit inside a processor that performs the calculations, and each core will have separate caches."

Comments

"Montecito"

[Mateito]

"Montecito", a spanish word, literally translates as "a small monte".

Thus I predict that this will be followed by a quad-core chip called the "monte", an 8-core chip called the "montote" (the big monte), and finally a 16-core chip known as "The Full Monte".

Re:mmmm cores

[bburton]

Can I have a 64bit OS too please? (no not linux)

Didn't you hear? According to SCO, Linux doesn't even exist!

Re:Note: Here, Single is Better

[skribble]

Thanks for pointing that out, I'm sure a number of people were things "Ooooo Cool two caches" when they should have been thinking "Awwww Damn, two caches!"

Inside the dual core

[spirit_fingers]

Actually, the left core will be verbal, creative and be really good at procesing visual information, while the right core will be logical, good at number crunching and have no style sense whatsoever.

Re:New Computer

[AKAImBatman]

Well I would buy a computer now but I have no cash

Is that a pun?

Re:Licensing Issues?

[name773]

when the wind is blowing westward on odd days of the week you pay for one. when there are clouds on an even day, you pay for two. during leap year, when a west wind blows clouds away at midnight on an even day, you pay for four processors, two computers, a camel, three pci slots, and a partridge in a pear tree.

coming this fall on Fox...

[rarose]

It's "RISC CPI for the CISC guy"

I can't wait to see what they do to his nonorthogonal register file.

So can it crash twice now ?

[mcraig]

Kernel Panic Core Dumped... Still Panicking Dumping Second Core...