Det er ikke helt nemt at fremstille sådan en cpu, derfor har Intel også udskudt det hele til 4 kvartal.
Der er ikke tvivl om at en Itanium cpu med 9mb cache nok skal vække opsigt, men det bliver ikke lige med det samme.
"Intel has informed its clients in Taiwan that the launch of its new Itanium 2 processor, codenamed Madison 9M, will be postponed by one quarter to the fourth quarter of this year.
As indicated previously, the Madison 9M will have a 9MB L3 cache but it will run at a clock speed of 1.6GHz, instead of the originally planned 1.7GHz, said sources at Taiwan server makers." Nyheden er her:
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20040902A2003.html