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[Nvyseal]

images/news/intel.jpgIntel is off planning the launch of its six-core Dunnington microprocessor, a hex, if you will, the last of the expected Core 2-based Xeon server chips before it switches over to the Nehalem microarchitecture capable of supporting eight or more cores.

Dunnington, a Bangalore-designed successor to Harpertown, is still supposed to be relatively hush-hush but Intel has reportedly put three dual-core 45nm Penryn chips on a die the size of a postage stamp and sharing a 16MB L3 cache. Like other Penryns, Dunnington still uses a front-side bus.

Dunnington slips into Intel’s Caneland platform and so uses the Clarksboro chipset.

The dingus, which Intel has previously described as pin-compatible with the dual-core/four-socket Tigerton quad, will be two- and four-socket, meaning mainframe-like machines with 24 cores.

Intel is reportedly seeing how quickly it can get the little beast out. It was due before the first of the Nehalem chips and could appear in Q3, maybe even Q2.

Eclipse

[TheBearLT]

MO, your PC gettin' old... time for upgrade ?


Hehe.. Thanks for the news Nv, good to know Intel "working" on something new

Edited by TheBearLT, 23 February 2008 - 05:47 PM.

[VROSA]

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Intel is off planning the launch of its six-core Dunnington microprocessor, a hex, if you will, the last of the expected Core 2-based Xeon server chips before it switches over to the Nehalem microarchitecture capable of supporting eight or more cores.

Very interesting... but I will keep my Core 2 Quad until the Nehalems are on the shelves.

[m.oreilly]

vrosa x64, on Feb 23 2008, 09:49 AM, said:

Very interesting... but I will keep my Core 2 Quad until the Nehalems are on the shelves.

hey vlad, it looks like it is a server part. this whole FSB thing is pants concerning mem bandwidth and the like, so yeah, the nehalem bits will be the way to go (intel wise, that is)...

[m.oreilly]

TheBearLT, on Feb 23 2008, 09:39 AM, said:

MO, your PC gettin' old... time for upgrade ?

lol, good one! great idea for a barbie too...

[talker]

I'm not sure where companies get the names for products but a little research might be a good idea. Not only what they mean but what they sound like. Bangalore is one that they really didn't see what was named that before they used it for a CPU. Nehalem sounds much like Nephilim. Nephilims were an unholy mating of angels and human women. I know it is just a play on words but someone needs to do a little research...talker.

Bangalore Torpedo

Edited by talker, 25 February 2008 - 01:15 PM.

[TheBearLT]

talker, on Feb 24 2008, 04:41 PM, said:

I'm not sure where companies get the names for products but a little research might be a good idea. Not only what they mean but what they sound like. Bangalore is one that they really didn't see what was named that before they used it for a CPU. Nehalem sounds much like Nephilim. Nephilims were and unholy mating of angels and human women. I know it is just a play on words but someone needs to do a little research...talker.

Bangalore Torpedo

Yeah you right.. I know many Beauty salons which named like "Horror", or "Death" in other dead languages..
Super markets named like "Diarrhoeia".. etc.

People don't making researches before naming their product/company.. That makes them look stupid.. and knowing person will never have deal with such an idiots

+1 Talker.. +1