Duke, Re: Intel plans to describe a new high-end Itanium chip code-named Tanglewood at its Developer Forum conference next month, sources close to the company said. The chip will include as many as 16 processors on a single slice of silicon.
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Intel expects Tanglewood not to consume more electrical power than current Itanium processors, sources said, an important feature that would make it easier to design servers without the overheating that causes data corruption and crashes.
16 Itanium 2 cores - or even 4 cores - on a single piece of silicon - even at 65nm - would not be manufactureable, let alone come close to current power envelopes. This must mean that Tanglewood is using some radical new micro-architecture. They would have to be much smaller cores with much less power dissipation than what we know of Itanium 2 today. What would be interesting is if Intel might be using single or dual core versions of this chip for the desktop, given the new smaller and lower power micro-architecture....
Re: Deerfield is scheduled to debut Sept. 8, sources said. According to Intel product plans from July, Deerfield will cost $744, substantially below the price of Intel's other Itanium 2 chips, which range from $1,338 to $4,226.
I think we've seen this before, but at least it is confirmation. This does not cost much more than Intel's DP Xeon chips. It will be interesting to see what kind of workstations and low end server designs will come from Deerfield.
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