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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (145005)	10/10/2001 7:36:03 PM
From: Windsock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

McKinley info from IDC available on Microprocessor Reports. *** Intel's McKinley Comes Into View By Kevin Krewell {10/1/01-01} Intel released significant details of the next IA-64 processor, code-named "McKinley," at the Intel Developer Forum Fall 2001 conference, while the Pentium 4 and Hyper-Threading Technology garnered most of the headlines. McKinley ushers in a number of significant improvements to the EPIC (explicitly parallel instruction-set computing) architecture and Intel projects it will deliver 1.5-2.0 times better performance than the existing IA-64 processor, Itanium (Merced). Some performance improvements can be attributed to the 1GHz target frequency (up 25% from the 800MHz Itanium), but the rest come from significant bandwidth and memory latency improvements. The McKinley architecture builds on the Merced design but incorporates a laundry list of improvements that include higher frequency, shorter pipeline, reduced cache latencies, on- chip L3 cache, larger L2 cache, additional functional units with additional issue ports, a threefold improvement on front-side bus bandwidth, and a greater addressing capability. McKinley also brings a new socket design to IA- 64, which will make the Merced platform obsolete by 2003. Microprocessor Report readers can access the full story here: mdronline.com