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Intel’s most hard working team has brought back Itanium in life by introducing the world’s first 2 billion transistor processor. This new 65nm chip is the first quad-core processor of the Itanium family , code named “Tukwila“.After some googling I learned Tukwila is the name of a place in Washington.

Back to processor,Tukwila is supposed to be the world’s biggest microprocessor ever made with the die size of 21.5×32.5mm², giving the speed of up to 2GHz on 170W of power on the first run.The Tukwila has four cores each of which is capable of executing two threads at once for a total of 8 simultaneous threads per socket. The cores are surrounded by a sea of L2 cache—30MB to be exact.Vow,at that much cache I just imagine what all I can do.Sure enough access a vast database with this cache would be very very smooth.

Along with Tukwila Intel is also set a benchmark for itself, Quickpath formerly known as Common Systems Interconnect.The AMD Hypertransport competitor.Intel is promising peak bandwidths of up to 96GBps for processor-to-processor links, and memory bandwidths of up to 34GBps from Tukwila’s four on-die FB-DIMM channels.

This processor is due release till the end of this year.Till then just imagine the velocity of this processor.