THIRD GENERATION WILL BE ITANIUM at 1.5 GHz
At the conference, Solid-State Circuits Conference (SSCS) Institute of IEEE, which will be held from 9 to 13 February next year in San Francisco, California, Intel is going to formally introduce the third generation of its server processors Itanium. Some information about them has already appeared on the site ZDNet.
Releasing today the core Itanium c McKinley have frequencies of 900 MHz and 1 GHz and a cache in the third level (on-chip) of 1.5 or 3 MB, the core of a double Madison cache to 6 MB and increase the operating frequency of 1.5 GHz. The number will reach 410 million transistors in chip area of 374 mm2 vs. 220 million and 421 mm2 at McKinley.
Produced the new processor will be the 0.13-micron process technology, while in Itaium 2 used 0.18 micron.
Like its predecessors, the new Itanium will be built on the architecture of EPIC (explicitly parallel instruction computing). This means it will be compatible with all applications not designed for 32-bit instruction set processors with x86. In particular, it need Windows XP 64-bit Edition and 64-bit Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition 2002.
According to ZDNet, the third generation of Itanium can get another brand.
