Intel's first processor based on
IA-64, codenamed
Merced, to be launched begin
2001 and intended (by
Intel) to be used in high-end servers.
The processor consists of 6 layers of aluminum with a total of 25 million transistors (compared to 28 million in the Penrium III) at 0.18 micron running below 800 MHz.
The maximum speed in theory is 6,4 GFlops.
Cache:
And 2 or 4 MB of
Level 3 on the cartridge.
Execution units:
Registers:
- 128 Multimedia
- 128 Floating point(82 bit)
- 64 Predicate
- 8 Branch
The internal bus has
ECC and the cartridge contains it own voltage-regulator.
Its successor is codenamed McKinley.