Intel delays Tukwila, again

Noticed this yesterday & heres few more facts. Intel is the biggest CPU maker in the world with AMD taking a distant second place. Intel is most known for its x86 CPUs, but the chipmaker also produces CPUs that are RISC-based. The company has announced delays in its next RISC-based processors.
Intel says that the chip, code-named Tukwila, is fine and that the delays arent caused by any issues with the processor itself. Intel says that the delays are to allow the addition of certain engineering enhancements.
The two most notable of these enhancements are compatibility with DDR3 memory; the original Itanium Tukwila design was compatible with DDR2 only, and an upgrade to allow the Tukwila CPU to use the same socket as future Itanium processors.
The future processors that Intel is talking about are code-named Poulson and Kittson. Not much is known about these two future processors other than the Poulson part will be built on a 32nm process and will have more than four cores per processor.
Tukwila is built on the 65nm process and has 2 billion transistors. The CPU will also have 30MB of on-die cache along with dual integrated memory controllers for balanced performance.
An Intel spokesman told InformationWeek, "The processor itself is fine, but Intel has made the decision to add some engineering enhancements."
The move to the same socket for the Tukwila CPU as the future parts is a good one for customers. That means that as upgrades to the faster parts are needed adding new Itanium processors will be as simple as removing the old CPU and plugging the new one in.
Experts say the changes are being added because the Tukwila CPU is slower in its original form than the IBM Power6 parts already on the market.
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Itanium = RISC??? That would be an EPIC mistake, my friend. Google Itanium EPIC .... then Google RISC ... then land on Earth ;-)

Um, another view, Drashek is a bot or some other nuisance that spews babble on this site, and shouldn't be taken seriously. I just wish the INQ would auto-kill Drashek comments.

.. is about as easy to understand as Japanese literally translated into English.

We have this thing called the 1st Amendment in the USA. Let him say his nonsense, it's his (annoying) right.

It probably makes economic sense to delay the Tukwila chips anyway. Those are very expensive CPUs with equally expensive chipsets and motherboards. What's 2 years late to Intel if there is still demand for the product given the global economic slowdown?

Travis, nice to point out the first amendment on a british site! The brist like the Australians, North Koreans and Chinese will soon censor the web, so why not start with babble-blurting bots? Keep your amendments to yourself, this is not your web anymore.

I saw a paper in 2003 that said Tukwila would be out in 2006 with 16 cores.

Way to go Intel.