The Register heeft top secret info van de Intel IA-64 roadmap, waaruit blijkt dat Intel over 4/5 jaar een nieuwe high-end opvolger van de Merced heeft gepland die geintroduceerd moet gaan worden op snelheden van rond de 3GHz. Check dit nieuwsbericht:
Reliable sources said yesterday that a future Intel IA-64 chip called Northwood would hit 3000MHz at its release.At the same time, it emerged that McKinley is likely to launch using P858 aluminium technology.
The source who requested anonymity, works at Intel's R&D centre in Israel. He said that all generations of microprocessors following Deschutes are developed in pairs: Katmai-Tanner, Coppermine-Cascades and Willamette-Foster.
Northwood, like Madison and Deerfield will be X60 compactions of the IA-64 but for the Willamette architecture.
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Meanwhile, the source said there is "practically no way" that Willamette and Foster will use copper technology.
According to another source at Intel Germany, the Merced platform was originally laid out for .35 micron technology...
