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Subject: Intel McKinley

Author: Aloisio Ponti Lopes

Date: 19:20:38 02/03/02


From www.xp-users.com:

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Details of presentation by Intel to be made on February 4th are already
available on its Web site, despite a notice on a presentation that says it's
under embargo until the 4th February. In the presentation, Intel reveals details
of its next generation McKinley 64-bit processor, which as we noted in a report
on the Solid State Conference the other day, will use low latency level three
cache design. It will also use next generation non volatile memory. And Intel
claims McKinleys in the future will run at .13 micron and at 5GHz at normal room
temperature, because of the low power circuits it will use. The paper also shows
details of its Ovonics based memory array architecture, which helps it create
big caches in future generations of its 64-bit chips. There's also a picture of
McKinley which Intel says is due for release in the middle of 2002, and which
started sampling during this month. Intel claims it will deliver between 1.5 to
2 times performance over existing Itanics. As we have suggested earlier,
McKinley will have a 3MB level three cache, with 64GB/s bandwidth for Level 2
cache - Intel will claim that's four times greater than proprietary designs.
McKinley cache is 85 per cent efficient, Intel will claim. The Inquirer found
the PDFs freely available on Intel's site - with the links on the Sandpile
forum, here. The second PDF with the die and the cache details is a big one -
over 2MB.
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Good news for Computer Chess! Now let's wait for AMD's Athlon 5000+, hehehe...

A. Ponti



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