...the next member of the itanium family, montecito will sport two cores and four logical processors due to the implementation of multithreading (HT-like technology - I wonder if it will utilize Itanium's execution resources better!). Then there'll be speedstep to control power consumption, and there'll be foxton, another new thing about which little details are known. Foxton is supposed to increase speed in the most demanding peaks of operation.... Either through dynamic overclocking or underclocking.
It will also get a 667Mhz FSB (10.6GB/s data transfer) and run at about 2Ghz with 4 times the current amount of cache. Montecito has already taped out...
And after that there'll be Tukwila, with at least 4 cores (possibly up to 16).... <i>Budget versions of tukwila should be socket-compatible with xeon!</i>..... I wonder what they'll do with Itanium until then?...
Without a doubt, montecito will have amazing spec scores... With those gargantuan specifications, it should be a good processor, but will it get better acceptance?...
Will montecito change the current Itanium acceptance? What about Xeon-socket compatibility for tukwila with multiple cores? Sounds theoretically interesting... Itanium has a lot of features and a lot of resources have been pumped into it. Just imagine how a 24MB-cache Xeon with simpler 64-bit extensions (like x86-64) and a 667Mhz, 128bit bus would be like today to get a grasp of the enormous effort that has been directed towards Itanium...
Any comments or more info?...
<i>Edit:Montecito will probably also go with DDR2; dual-channel DDR2-667 should feed its bus happily. </i><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Mephistopheles on 07/25/04 11:19 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
It will also get a 667Mhz FSB (10.6GB/s data transfer) and run at about 2Ghz with 4 times the current amount of cache. Montecito has already taped out...
And after that there'll be Tukwila, with at least 4 cores (possibly up to 16).... <i>Budget versions of tukwila should be socket-compatible with xeon!</i>..... I wonder what they'll do with Itanium until then?...
Without a doubt, montecito will have amazing spec scores... With those gargantuan specifications, it should be a good processor, but will it get better acceptance?...
Will montecito change the current Itanium acceptance? What about Xeon-socket compatibility for tukwila with multiple cores? Sounds theoretically interesting... Itanium has a lot of features and a lot of resources have been pumped into it. Just imagine how a 24MB-cache Xeon with simpler 64-bit extensions (like x86-64) and a 667Mhz, 128bit bus would be like today to get a grasp of the enormous effort that has been directed towards Itanium...
Any comments or more info?...
<i>Edit:Montecito will probably also go with DDR2; dual-channel DDR2-667 should feed its bus happily. </i><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Mephistopheles on 07/25/04 11:19 PM.</EM></FONT></P>