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To: GVTucker who wrote (98603)	2/9/2000 12:49:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel's Itanium to roll out at 800 MHz By Will Wade EE Times (02/09/00, 12:04:25 PM EDT) SAN FRANCISCO ( ChipWire) -- Intel Corp. plans to introduce its long-awaited 64-bit Itanium microprocessor later this year at an initial speed grade of 800 MHz. The company revealed numerous technicaldetails of the device this week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference 2000. "This is the most significant product introduction from Intel since the 386 chips," said Gadi Singer, vice president and general manager of the company's IA-64 division and a key architect on the project. He said the company has delivered thousands of engineering prototypes of Itanium to more than 30 computer OEMs, as well as to numerous other vendors in the chip set, operating system, application software and other segments. Code-named Merced, Singer said the device will hit the market in the middle of this year. The processor contains 25 million transistors, and is contained within a cartridge that packs 4 megabytes of Level 3 cache. The Itanium device features a back-side bus that allows this cache to run at the same frequency as the processor itself. The front-side bus delivers 266 million transfers per second, which is twice the speed seen in the 133-MHz buses found in today's high-end IA-32 processors. The Itanium is expected to be used in servers and workstations, and Intel will support the processor with a chip set that allows up to four of the chips to work together. OEMs can then pack these units together into workhorse systems with as many as 512 Itanium chips working together. Singer said the chip is designed with parallel execution in mind, and each Itanium can process up to six instructions simultaneously. Its floating point unit can perform 6.4 billion operations per second. "Our design goal was to keep the chip busy every cycle," he said. "The Itanium delivers greater instruction-level parallelism than any contemporary processor." With e-commerce and Internet applications growing at a rapid rate, Singer said the Itanium will play a critical role in developing the infrastructure to support the information age. "We estimate that the world today has only four percent of the server capacity that will be required in the next several years, so that means there is 96% of the market left," said Singer. "We are in the beginning of a major revolution, and we ain't seen nothing yet."