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Itanium #

By Ricky Cann Posted Friday 18th July 2008 07:47 GMT

In February 2008 Intel claimed it has fabricated a chip with 2,000,000,000 transisters. This should be commercially available under the 'Itanium' brand name.

My mate Dave says he about to go public with a 2,000,000,001 transister chip but I don't believe him.

Yeah, that seems to be about it. #

By Jonathan Tate Posted Friday 18th July 2008 15:04 GMT

I was going to mention the nVidia 280GTX or Intel's quad core Penryn, but they're only ~1 billion and ~0.9 billion (when you count both die within the package) respectively.

What's scary about it is that those 2 billion transistors are fabbed with the 65nm process, not 45nm. That chip has got to be HUGE! It probably wouldn't be able to fit in a LGA socket even if they tried.