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staph
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2004-07-18, 09:02

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Originally Posted by Morpheus
Fair enough:

Antares is a dual core (two processors on single die) follow-on to Altair, using IBM's CMOS SOI10K technology with SOI (Silicon On Insulator) and copper bus with 10 layers of metal. Each core has a 1M L2 cache. L3 cache is not supported.

How is this for a start?

Morpheus
Thank you. That's much better.

Any thoughts on what core it's using (modified 970? stripped down P5 w/ Altivec, perhaps with SMT?)