New Itaniums Madison 9M, Nov8

[priyajeet]

<A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5432675.html" target="_new">http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5432675.html</A>

well, not new for Nasa/SGI
"The Itanium 2 9M is built on a manufacturing process with circuitry dimensions of 130 nanometers. Next on Intel's agenda is a successor called Montecito due by the end of 2005 and built with a 90-nanometer process. After that comes Montvale, the first Itanium to be built using the 65-nanometer manufacturing process."

:tongue: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/priyajeet/fing.jpg" target="_new"><i><font color=red>Very funny, Scotty.</font color=red><font color=blue> Now beam down my clothes.</font color=blue></i></A> :tongue: <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by priyajeet on 10/29/04 06:19 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Mephistopheles]

Itanium 9M is no big deal. It basically adds a lot more of cache and does some refinements to the old and already aging madison core.

The next big thing for itanium - and it's pretty big alright - is montecito. Montecito is IA64-based and features, basically:

- clock speeds of up to 2.5Ghz
- 24MB on-die cache
- dual core architecture (12MB cache for each core)
- coarse-grained multithreading (similar to HT)
- Pellston and Foxton: cool'n'quiet and dynamic overclocking
- Greatly revamped system architecture:
-- Point-to-point busses with >3x the bandwidth of Madison 9M

Montecito is to have 1.7Billion transistors and is actually very, very important for Itanium's overall future. It will, of course, be the best and biggest thing in floating point there is; the world's biggest number cruncher, but will that matter?

A lot depends on Montecito.

Little depends on Madison 9M.

 

[peteroy]

I need to do 1+1, how fast does Itanium calculate that?

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[AMD101]

The die on that thing must be huge. What kinda cooling do these things require? They taking the integrated peltier approach like AMD or something else?