Intel's Montecito Will Have Nearly A Billion Transistors

By Roland Piquepaille

Yes, according to ExtremeTech, Intel is pushing the number of transistors on a chip close to one billion!

Intel's "Montecito" dual-core successor to the Itanium will integrate a whopping 18 megabytes of level 3 cache, Intel executives revealed, pushing the transistor count closer to one billion.
Nimish Modi, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Processor Division, disclosed that each core in the Montecito, due in 2005, would use two discrete caches. Moreover, he said, each level 3 cache will be at least twice the size of the previous processor

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