9th Nov 2012, 10:12
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WIIGII!
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Intel backs away from Itanium, plans Xeon drop-in chips
Future motherboards will support Itanium or Xeon.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...rops-itanium/1
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9th Nov 2012, 12:25
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What's a Dremel?
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The founding issue with Itanium is that its EPIC architecture philosophy is simply too far removed from the modern trends in the industry, like power efficiency, uniform top-down scalability (from mobile to server) and broad software compatibility. And the thing is just too expensive to build, since to be an efficient ISA it needs a ton of cache memory to keep the static scheduled wide pipeline fed with data and instructions.
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9th Nov 2012, 20:35
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Minimodder
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And a ton of cache is what it does have. Since these are premium chips it doesn't matter that Intel has to spend more die area on cache - the customer pays for it anyway.
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10th Nov 2012, 07:18
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Supermodder
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Location: Seattle
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Holy crap, Larry Ellison was right!?
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10th Nov 2012, 16:47
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Multimodder
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holy crap, i thought this thing was burried years ago
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12th Nov 2012, 06:56
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Supermodder
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just plain old holy crap!
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