Fujitsu - The Intel Proc. Killer?

[Zephik]

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/14/better-than-intel-fujitsu-develops-worlds-fastest-processor/?awesm=tcrn.ch_1tj&utm_medium=tcrn.ch-twitter&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_source=direct-tcrn.ch

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[SXRguyinMA]

I'll take two :up:

[XcOM]

that should make a nice machine for msn

[mtekk]

The current Itanium core/revision is two years old (this is what they are using as their baseline). So by Moore's law, I'd hope they're getting about a 2x performance improvement. It is also using a 90nm process, which is two generations old. The next Itanium core will be made on the 65nm process which will give it a speed gain and power reduction. If they'd use 45nm, which won't happen for some time, Intel may be able to match Fujitsu's chip power consumption wise. Since they are comparing a 2 core, 4 thread cpu, to a 8 core processor, it looks like the Itanium is actually more efficient, core wise. Intel is doubling the core count in the next Itanium revision so that 2.5x multiplier drops to maybe 1.25x.

[TheGreatSatan]

Is that a single die in the first pic? It's huge!

[Zephik]

Is that a single die in the first pic? It's huge!

Thank god. I thought it was just me. lol (unless you were referring to that wafer behind the actual chip, then yea, they are ginormous. lol)

I thought that 45nm were supposed to be smaller, not larger? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what 'nm' refers to?

But that thing is pretty massive! I wonder what socket it is? Maybe a custom one?

[nevermind1534]

Thank god. I thought it was just me. lol (unless you were referring to that wafer behind the actual chip, then yea, they are ginormous. lol)

I thought that 45nm were supposed to be smaller, not larger? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what 'nm' refers to?

But that thing is pretty massive! I wonder what socket it is? Maybe a custom one?

Custom socket, almost guaranteed. 45nm Just refers to how small the transistors in it are. Ir's 8 cores, so it's going to be big. They probably also have a large cache.