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Tukwila is Intel's new server-oriented Itanium-family processor, the first in the world to pack two billion transistors. Most of these are used for cache memory, needed to keep its four 2GHz 65-nanometer cores fed at all times with data, instructions and probably giant radioactive lizard meat. I don't know about what kind of power is hidden into thy fearful symmetry, Tukwila, but I have to admit you look so makey-outy for being a CPU. [BBC]
Intel Tukwila Is World's First 2 Billion Transistor Chip, Can Fight Godzilla Blindfolded
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6:31 AM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Jesus Diaz
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