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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