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Subject: Re: Question for Dr. Hyatt

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:31:56 11/22/02

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On November 22, 2002 at 05:57:01, Michael Vox wrote:

>
>Actually anyone's input it welcome, if you can help.
>
>In regard to Intel Itanium 64-bit chips, are these going to replace the standard
>Intel 32-bit chips ?

Them or something else Intel might choose to do.

>
>If so, what do you think will be the time line on this ?

I'd say a 5-year clock is ticking down.  Whether it is set to 5 or 3 is
debatable.  But
it is ticking nevertheless..



>
>How much faster would an Itanium run Crafty compared to a standard 32-bit CPU ?
>

It is hard to compare the two.  A 1ghz IA32 might hit 500K nodes per second.  A
1ghz Itanium2 will clock in at over 1.5M nodes per second...





>Any other input on the Itanium chips would be appreciated.
>
>Regards,


They are both fast, and at the moment relatively pricey.  They are selling for
about what
the 2M L2 cache xeons are selling for, that is in the $3,000 price range for the
bare cpu
chipo.  Of course, those prices will drop as production supplies increase and
yield goes
up and demand increases.

It's just a matter of time...



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