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To: TimF who wrote (59392)	10/19/2001 8:34:43 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Tim, Re: "But isn't Itanium a complex design with a lot of transistors and high power dissipation?" Merced does have a lot of transistors, and a huge die, but consider this. McKinley has 3MB of integrated L3 cache, and still ends up having a similar die size to Merced, as well as a similar power dissipation. Itanium isn't huge and hot because of the architecture, but because no one took the time to optimize the micro-architecture. I believe that future generations of the chip will be much better designed with power in mind, and eventually dissipate far less than higher frequency chips of the x86 architecture. wanna_bmw