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."