CPU/Mobo Intel’s Processors to Have Integrated Memory Controllers in 2007

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Intel Corp. has been pretty skeptical about integrating memory controllers into the central processing units citing loss of flexibility, but it seems that the company may change its mind at least for server chips in about two years time with its unified Intel Xeon-Itanium platform.
“In 2007 Intel will standardize interface of the IA32 and IA64 processors and will integrate the memory controller into the CPU,” Eng Lim Goh, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of SGI told journalists at a press conference in Munich, Germany, reports Golem.de web-site.

The server microprocessors that will be available in 2007 will reportedly use common serial interconnect (CSI) bus instead of traditional processor system bus and will support FB DIMM memory modules. The first chip from Intel to have built-in memory controller is claimed to be Tukwila, a multi-core Intel Itanium processor.
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seen that sometime before ..... now things are going the other way around ...previously it was like AMD was taking the designs from Intel now Intel is copying AMD .....first the 64bit processor then this integrated mem controller ........
 
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