Replies to post #50429 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

Well, Tukwila and Dunnington look like a pattern of throwing silicon at the competition.

Nice troll.

IBM throws silicon at the competition too. However due
to its inferior silicon manufacturing competence it has to
split it up among two or more dice and then wire them
back together with thousands of high speed off-die
transceivers and suffer all the power and latency that
entails.

Quad core 65 nm z6 server processor with 24 MB L3 - two
chips, 879 mm2 total

http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/IBM-z6-mainframe-microprocessor-Webb.pdf

With separate L3 chip z6 L3 bandwidth is 48 GB/2 while
Tukwila has about 256 GB/2 of L3 bandwidth.

[smooth2o]

re: Well, Tukwila and Dunnington look like a pattern of throwing silicon at the competition. Reasonably so - spending is certainly to be considered a core-competency of Intel. ;-)

Au contraire. I think the addition of 6 and more cores results in (yet) another top price bracket for which there are even better margins.

Smooth