{"id":2782,"date":"2008-02-05T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-05T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T09:25:00","slug":"intel-to-deliver-first-computer-chip-with-two-billion-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/2782-intel-to-deliver-first-computer-chip-with-two-billion-transistors.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel to deliver first computer chip with two billion transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#39;s largest maker of microprocessors says its new Itanium brand chip, codenamed &quot;Tukwila,&quot; built for supercomputers increases the power of machines more than twofold and will be available near the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;quad core&quot; chip is designed with four processors that share computing workloads, according to Intel.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The quad-core chip is coupled with higher bandwidths and large caches to enable a doubling in performance of Tukwila over the current Intel Itanium 9100 series processor,&quot; the Santa Clara, California, company said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the highest number of transistors packed into a computer chip was 1.7 billion in a two-core microprocessor, according to Intel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=104242\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel announced on Monday that it has created a two-billion-transistor computer chip that will give supercomputers &#8220;a leap in performance and capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}