Intel Details Nehalem uArch Improvements - 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Confirmed

[Donnie27]

I do believe Intel got the L3 idea from the DEC Alpha EV-5 21164. It may well have been first used before that but not by Intel/AMD.

I doo too and I agree I've been jumpped here for saying Intel and AMD borrows heavily from DEC/Alpha. Intel had IMC before Alpha and AMD. There'd be no Athlons without Alpha's EV6. Hell even Timna was the forerunner of Fusion but tell that to some folks here?

Slipped and Skipped was the line about RDIMM or Rambus, hehehehe! The return of the, "Awe he didn't say that" LOL!