EE Times - Sun said to be planning family of 64-bit Opteron machines

Plus news on dual-core IPF:

Intel's first dual-core Itanic, 'Montecito', will sport a whopping 24MB of L3 cache, the chip giant said yesterday, by way of Reuters.

And in a staggering feat of processor engineering that has clearly wowed the news agency's hacks, the chip will "be able to run several applications at once".

Gosh. If only we could do that now...