Intel Itanium processor

Intel has just achieved another milestone in its long list of records in designing processors. The recent one is the Itanium which is a quad-core processor for servers . It is just the latest evolution of Intel’s long line of processors, but this one passes the 2 Billion transistor mark, which is remarkable. To be fair, most of these transistors are “cache memory, which is much less complicated to design than the computing cores themselves. To give you an idea, 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)

What else a server needs still???