Intel Itanium - 2 Billion Transistor Processor

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Intel has just introduced the Itanium quad-core processor for servers. It is the latest of Intels X86 processors, but this processor is simply amazing.

Two billion transistors represent the sum of these chips:

AMD Phenom (463M)
DC Intel Penryn (410M)
Intel Conroe (341M)
PS3 GPU (300M)
Sony Cell (234M)
Xbox 360 GPU (232M)
Motorola PowerPC 750 (20)

Via BBC News

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