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Intel Details Upcoming Two-Billion Transistor CPU

Intel shows off the world's first two-billion transistor processor at ISSCC.

February 07, 2008
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Intel this week revealed details of its Tukwila processor at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco. The processor, which Intel says will be available later this year, has truly massive specs: It will be the first processor to contain two billion transistors, will have 30 MB of on-chip cache, and will boast 96-GBps processor-to-processor throughput between its four cores.

Tukwila is built using a 65-nm process, and contains Intel's new QuickPath interconnect technolgy. Intel claims a doubling in performance over its current Itanium 9100 series.