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To: L. Adam Latham who wrote (134652)	5/11/2001 11:36:46 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

I don't know if everyone knows it, but the Itanium processor actually has 44 data address lines, which can support 2^44 or ~17.5 TBytes of memory. This is a big plus for data mining or DB applications that would benefit from having the entire database in memory. As customer demand for systems with >64 GBytes of RAM increases, Itanium-based systems will be able to handle it. Other systems will be able to handle it too, probably much more economically than any Itanic system can.. In addition, the AMD Athlon processor system bus architecture is capable of accessing more than 8 terabytes of physical addressable memory compared to 64 gigabytes supported by the Intel P6 bus architecture.http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/pdf/bus_wp.pdf Ok, the Itanic has a lock on the 9-17 terabyle main memory system market, for the moment.