[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Lionel Peterson]

The die would be HUGE... And the failure rate would be astronimical!

Oh wait, we are suspending reality... It would be the next generation
MediaGX processor... ;^)

Lionel

--- Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> At 22:23 8/01/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> >> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Joshua D Boyd

> My bet is that in future architectures they'll eventually figure out
> how to integrate the main memory on die i.e. large full-speed direct
> access memory systems. 
> 
> Ignoring the current issues of fabrication and cost - imagine what
> you could do with a GB of memory on die. The processor speed would
> almost be irrelevant.


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Lionel

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programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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