Four-Core Itanium Processor

Yesterday Intel described how they could create a new processor using 4 Itanium 2 processors. Each of the cores would share a common cache and leverage resources off of each other increasing efficiency.

"Crawford went on to describe a hypothetical processor that would contain four Itanium 2 cores and 12 to 16 megabytes of shared cache memory, all connected through a leaf interconnect scheme. Each Itanium 2 processor would contain about 120 million transistors while the cache would carry 700 million to 950 million transistors, bringing the total transistor budget to well over 1 billion, he said."

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