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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (171646)	10/16/2002 10:15:16 AM
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Crawford: [from inq 213.219.40.69 ] Four-core Itanium 2 mooted at Microprocessor Forum Intel toys with a thousand million transistors By Paul Hales: Wednesday 16 October 2002, 14:46 INTEL HAS USED the Microprocessor Forum to hype up the Intelgraph Itanic 2 processor, demonstrating how the processor core could be deployed in a foursome, using a shared cache, to effectively create, it says, one processor made up of over one thousand million processors. Intel Fellow, John Crawford, delivered a keynote speech at the gathering suggesting that such a multi-cored processor would require between 12-16MB of shared cache memory to overcome the relatively slow performance of external memory as well as helping reduce the design’s power consumption. Intel is currently looking at multi-cored processor designs as a way of dissipating heat across the surface of a processor, combined with hyperthreading and true multithreading as a way of increasing processor performance while keeping power consumption down. Crawford cited keeping power consumption down as one of the greatest challenges facing microprocessor architects. Crawford who was Chief Architect for the Intel386 processor and also contributed to the design of the 486 said such a 4-core Itanic 2 could feasibly be built today. "We would expect something of this nature coming out," he said.