End of November last year, first details of a new 64 bit arrived processor made by Intel codenamed Madison to light. Today now, published in the framework of the International Solid State Circuits Conference 2003, first official details of the Madison and his successor.

As already reported in November, the Madison “Itanium 2″ label with a up to 6 MB cache will be equipped, which is located directly on the and takes more than 50 percent of the space on the chip, and thus also of transistors 410 million to complete. By switching to the 0.13 µm manufacturing technology is not only less Madison when compared to the McKinley despite his twice as large caches, but consumes even more power at a clock speed raised from 1.0 GHz to 1.5 GHz.

Intel itself assumes with the Madison a good 50 percent in the summer of this year to provide faster processor for reusable systems. Already next year Intel with the revised one Madison 9 m to introduce version of Madison, which comes with a 9 MB cache therefore, added more than 1.5 GHz, and consists of more than 500 million Tranisitoren.

The successor of the Madison family will be Montecito, Intel published now also more details about the. This processor is expected to be manufactured in 90nm and is to host two full processing cores with their own L3 cache under its hood.