Replies to post #90015 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[Tenchu]

Chipguy, I don't remember seeing as big of a jump from a Xeon DP to a Xeon MP as I see in the jump from Nehalem to Beckton.

I agree with the IPF skeptics, by the way. From what I see, there really isn't much excitement around Itanium anymore. Otherwise, I would see a renewed push to beat IBM POWER.

Tenchu

[Golfbum]

Has it just been the cache size or other uncore features?

I think bumping the cache size is probably not an A team problem but adding a lot of coherency features or major RAS stuff would be.

In any case the modular approach should allow more sharing. Whether they do so remains to be seen.

gb