New Intel CPU with 2 Billion Transistors
Written by IT News on 5:18 AMBy: Bogdan Botezatu, Hardware Editor
Intel's Itanium 2 billion transistors processor, also known as Tukwila, managed to stir up some attention recently as it is not every day you see a chip packaging so many transistors. Tukwila is a quad-the bulk of construction
at 65 - nanometer node, that the process is moving with large amounts of cache memory.
Earlier this week, during the preliminary IDF briefing, Pat Gelsinger, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, went some details about the upcoming chip, which is expected to deliver twice the performance in dual-core Montvale (in the 9100 series Itanium).
In Tukwila hippopotamuses 21.5x32.5 built on the square-millimeter die, and will be shown in the default clock speed of only 2 GHz. However, the true power lies not in the processor clock speed, but rather in a huge cache of dying announced reach 30 MB. Moreover, according to Gelsinger, the processor will also support hyperthreading, which allows chips to process up to eight simultaneous threads training.
Another innovation in the design of the processor is the use of new QuickPath Interconnect (QPI), and dual integrated memory controller. Recent indicators of achievement will also shift the processor market, and Gelsinger argues that, despite the fact that systems integrators, such as SGI, Hewlett-Packard and NEC are now using Intel's Itanium chips for the traditional series of powerful computing goals, New chip will be aimed at mission-critical applications in the future.
Processor thermal design power output of 170 watts, but Intel announced another stock keeping units that will lower thermal envelope of "only" 130 Watts. Given the fact that Tukiwlla builds on the previous generation, 65 - nanometer process node and compresses two billion transistors on a die, their thermal efficiency is still acceptable.
Intel announced that the chip Tukwila will appear on the market in the last quarter of this year.
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