Cache Memories in Next Generation Cpus
Intel Corporation of Santa Clara, California, has indicated that there will be three levels of cache memories within their "Madison" Itanium processor, and the largest cache block will be a staggering 6 megabytes in size. This amount of memory constituted approximately the entire memory subsystem of popular microcomputers of only a decade earlier.
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