Vows not to give up: Intel's next generation Itanium introduces hyper-threading

Although it was ruthlessly betrayed by Oracle, Hewlett-Packard was also in serious trouble with its top partner, but Intel apparently did not intend to abandon the Itanium business. It was recently held at the Hot-Chips 23 high-performance processor conference held at Stanford University. The next generation of "Poulson" was talked about.

According to latest information released by Intel, Poulson Itanium will be released in 2012, manufactured using a new 32nm process, with up to eight cores, a 12-wide launch architecture, and the first introduction of support for Hyper-Threading Technology, thus providing up to 16 logic Threads. The technology has long been used in desktop and server processors, but it is the first time it has been used on Itanium. Itanium 2 era Intel once intended to allow it to support Hyper-Threading, but eventually canceled.

According to previously released data, Poulson Itanium will integrate about 3.1 billion transistors, the core area is reduced to 544 square millimeters, and the thermal design power consumption is also maintained at 170W, the cache level is 16+16KB, the second level is 512+256KB, and the third level is 32MB.

The new Itanium will also support "Instruction Reply Technology" (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) (Instruction Reply Technology) to help detect errors in the operation , Expanded Software Prefetch, Thread Control.

Intel also re-emphasized that Poulson will have the next generation of Itan “Kittson” and is currently under development, but many people think that it will become the end of Itanium.