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Old 10th February 2010
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Default Two billion-transistor beasts: POWER7 and Niagara 3

From http://arstechnica.com/business/news...-niagara-3.ars

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In this short article, I'll walk you through the floorplan of two chips with similar transistor counts—the Sun's Niagara 3 and IBM's POWER7
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Intel's newest Itanium looks like shit comparing to those
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Yes, but Intel can compensate that with marketing
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