Intel Itaniums will skip to 32nm..

[Inferno]

But, obviously this isnt the final design on something set to come out in the future. They barely said much of anything about the actual chip except that they were skipping 45nm and going to 32nm and those chips are the Itaniums.

 

[zmatt]

the itaniums are worthless to us. they are ultra highend server chips that never caught on because of the propreitary instruction set. AMDs set did catch on and the 64bit one that intel uses is based off the AMD one. the itaniums are nothing more than a gimmick. I bet what they are diong here is testing the 32nm process on a chip that nobody uses so when it comes time to make the mainstream chips 32nm they would have worked all the bugs out.

 

[gaara]

But, obviously this isnt the final design on something set to come out in the future. They barely said much of anything about the actual chip except that they were skipping 45nm and going to 32nm and those chips are the Itaniums.

The process size has nothing to do with instruction set support dude. The final design for the Itanium is always going to be based on an AI-64 instruction set and will not support x86 natively.

PowerPC is not an x86 processor. Itanium is not an x86 processor. I guarantee any and all software you use in Windows is written for x86-32 sets. Itanium is intended for a small niche market and is an example of a workstation processor that does not excel in a desktop setting...unlike Xeon and Opteron chips which DO support x86

Itanium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
X86-64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Apokalipse]

Intel Itanium to skip 45nm - vnunet.com

wow....this process thing is going fast.

I seem to remember the Itanium's being quite a failure outside very few specialised servers.

Itaniums are 64 bit processors and only 64 bit processors. Xeons, Opterons, Athlon 64s, Pentium 4s and Core 2s all use the x86-64 instruction set which is backwards compatible with x86-32. Itaniums use what is called IA-64 which is not an x86 instruction, therefore any x86 instructions done on an Itanium, whether 32 or 64 bit, are emulated

for this exact reason

The process size has nothing to do with instruction set support dude. The final design for the Itanium is always going to be based on an AI-64 instruction set and will not support x86 natively.

PowerPC is not an x86 processor. Itanium is not an x86 processor. I guarantee any and all software you use in Windows is written for x86-32 sets. Itanium is intended for a small niche market and is an example of a workstation processor that does not excel in a desktop setting...unlike Xeon and Opteron chips which DO support x86

The PowerPC was used in Mac's, I believe. Before they switched over to Intel CPU's, anyway.

 

[Poizen22]

well there really trying to get this itanium thig to work as the itanium one was considerd one of the largest **** ups in the history of computing literally i was reading pc gamer and in one issue they were talking about the history of pc **** ups

 

[zmatt]

like i said, this is probably just a test of their new fab techniques so that when the mainstream chips lie the core2s will have a seamless transition to 32nm.

 

[Apokalipse]

well there really trying to get this itanium thig to work as the itanium one was considerd one of the largest **** ups in the history of computing literally i was reading pc gamer and in one issue they were talking about the history of pc **** ups

Itanium's are not X86, nor will they be likely to be without changing their architecture so much that they won't really resemble current Itanium's.

That alone makes them very unlikely to succeed, IMO.

 

[Inferno]

The process size has nothing to do with instruction set support dude. The final design for the Itanium is always going to be based on an AI-64 instruction set and will not support x86 natively.

PowerPC is not an x86 processor. Itanium is not an x86 processor. I guarantee any and all software you use in Windows is written for x86-32 sets. Itanium is intended for a small niche market and is an example of a workstation processor that does not excel in a desktop setting...unlike Xeon and Opteron chips which DO support x86

Itanium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
X86-64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not gonna lie, i know nothing about instruction sets or anything of that sort, i was simply talking about processor size. And now im effin confused, because i thought this is something that's being developed for the future, and you guys are all saying it was a huge failure as if it was already released. Bring me up to speed, i DNWTFIGO!

 

[Apokalipse]

Not gonna lie, i know nothing about instruction sets or anything of that sort, i was simply talking about processor size. And now im effin confused, because i thought this is something that's being developed for the future, and you guys are all saying it was a huge failure as if it was already released. Bring me up to speed, i DNWTFIGO!

Itanium does already exist, and has been marketed by Intel... unsuccessfully.

 

[fastrandstrongr]

32 nm... thats getting really close to that 25nm limit. For those who don't know, at around 25nm the laws of quantum physics will allow electrons to leap across transistor drawbridges even when they're open, effectively breaking down the basis of the modern computer circuit.