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Intel to Deliver Chip with Two Billion Transistors |
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Written by Philip Buonpastore
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
SAN FRANCISCO — Intel announced that it has created a
two-billion transistor computer chip that will give supercomputers "a
leap in performance and capabilities."
Introduced at the
International Solid State Circuits Conference, the company reported
that its new quad-core Itanium processor - codenamed "Tukwila" - will
increase computing power more than twofold, and will be available
toward the end of the year. Industry reports say that the processor
will run at up to 2 GHz.
Previously, the highest number of
transistors packed into a computer chip was the company's own, with 1.7
billion transistors in a two-core microprocessor. The new processor is
a "quad core" chip design with four processors and 2 billion
transistors, according to Rob Shiveley, company spokesman.
"The
quad-core chip is coupled with higher bandwidths and large caches to
enable a doubling in performance of Tukwila over the current Intel
Itanium 9100 series processor," the company said in a release. |
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