Itanium Poulson is on track for Q2 2012
As you may know, next year Intel is going to release next generation of Itanium microprocessors, codenamed "Poulson". Details of these processors were disclosed earlier this year on Hot Chips conference. The Poulson processors will have 3.1 billion transistors, and will be manufactured on 32nm process. They will integrate 54 MB of memory, and pack 8 cores, that is twice as many cores as current "Tukwilla"-based Itanium 9300 CPUs. Forthcoming processors will be compatible with Itanium 9300, and they will be coupled with 7500 chipset. New features on the Itanium Poulson will be Instruction Reply Technology, improved Hyper-Threading technology, and new instructions. Instruction Reply Technology is a RAS enhancement, which allows the CPU to re-execute current instruction, if during its execution the processor detects an error. Hyper-threading will support dual-domain multithreading, which will improve HT performance. New Itanium instructions consist of several integer instructions, as well as a few instructions, that improve data access and thread control. It was previously disclosed that Poulson CPUs will be available in 2012. According to our source, the Itaniums are planned for the second quarter 2012 production. At this time we don't have any new processor specifications, in addition to the details, revealed at the Hot Chips conference.
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Impressive -- !Not
Already in T4 and POWER6. No innovation here, just reverse engineering of existing function. Bravo Intel.
I can't wait
Number of attendees at the Itanium Hot Chips presentation: 4, two HP sales reps and two Intel engineers.... I guess it could be interesting if companies want to buy the latest hardware to migrate off of the next year.
T4
Oracle has a huge order for Sparc T4s. The Computing History Museum wants to put them on display.
do not say if not shure
but i think that processor will be interesting any way.
on other hand we have to wait for production systems based on poulson.
hope they will be in time:)
good luck
Sam
Itanium is so dead. HP announcement that they will not port HP-UX, VMS or NonStop off of Itanium probably will kill those OSs as well.
54 MB cache
That's cache, not RAM.
54 MB RAM in the article was incorrect. It should say 54 MB of memory, and I just corrected it. The 54 MB of memory includes 50 MB of SRAM (static RAM), which in turn includes L1, L2 and L3 caches, directory cache, and other internal caches/buffers. L3 cache size is 32 MB.
IA64 is dead
HP and Intel have a contract to deliver up to Kitson (thus no road maps beyond). Love or hate IA64, there is no turning back for this - thanks to the Carly years at HP and even before (was it not Compaq that wanted IA64 to replace Alpha). HP will not upset its existing IA64 customers even if, new sales almost hit the floor. Tukwila was the first real quad core upgrade from the dual core PARISC PA8800 back in 2000. Shamefully for HP and all their current and former (plenty of those) customers, it took then 10 years to double the cores for enterprise. Clearly this statistic is so woeful. HP has lost so many customers still left in enterprise based on the slow delivery of the technology from Intel and from companies like Oracle kicking the boot in. I believe that the Poulson and Kitson IA64 chips will be very much like the last series of Alpha processors. Great, but all to be longed for the museum rooms. When will HP INVENT??? (I believe the Compaq virus ate that) Shameful for a company that once had a great engineering prowess. HPUX, which was once considered the No. 1 Unix, is penciled for the bin, unless HP cracks the door for XEON, or maybe ARM servers. If HP wants to be a software company, then why is it giving away all the cash to Red Hat/Microsoft, when HPUX would clearly provide a superior enterprise solution. (only reason - Oracle case, and Intel contract). HP will go down on record for mothballing some absolute amazing technology. Clearly signs of management lacking the required Engineering belief and understanding that the company once so appreciated.