IDF: More 'Nehalem' Details, 6-cores
Intel announced that the first ’Nehalem’ family of processors to be made available will be desktop processors (Core i7) and high-performance server products code-named Nehalem-EP.
Intel said it is planning to manufacture a second server derivative designed for the expanding server market ("Nehalem-EX"), as well as desktop (Havendale and Lynnfield) and mobile (Auburndale and Clarksfield) client versions in the second half of 2009.
All Nehalem processors will be quad-core versions initially, processing up to eight threads simultaneously, thanks to the use of a revived and updated Hyperthreading technology.
Intel’s 6-core processor code-named Dunnington will be called Xeon X7460 and is expected to become available in servers beginning next month. Intel claims that servers based on the chip already have broken performance records, including an 8-socket 48-core IBM System x3950 M2 server, which became the first platform to break the 1 million tpmC barrier on the TPC-C benchmark, Intel said.
Intel also demonstrated the company’s first mobile quad-core processor and, for the first time, the next-generation Calpella mobile platform, as well as Intel’s upcoming solid state disk drives, which will debut in 32 GB and 80 GB flavors.
More to come.
I'm sure that was originally 6/12 cores...
So far I'm liking the current technology presented in the Nehalem,and hope AMD puts up something people actually want.
I think that Intel post video clips on their site. Check it out.
I don't want to sound like an Intel faboy (I would cheer for AMD too if they also where making something like this, and maybe they will soon)
12 threads per chip sounds like a good thing for a server.
The same people who need Quad SLI in their desktops.
Apps bias-compiled for spintel?
I have yet to see anything of real interest here - just hype talk, and people led down the path, and eager for more. I guess spintel is still tweaking the bubblegum? Or tweaking the crowd. Chew it up people. I prefer truth. Put it out there. Does it work?
Goto www.intel.com/idf they have the keynotes.
It's called QPI its faster and wider than HT 3.0 spec and it has more links with shorter hopps.
Yet Intel processors work better..AMD's original hyper-transport is nothing better than a regular FSB.
AMD should have figured out the quick way to make a Quad or 6 core just by gluing 2 X2's or 3 X2 processors together but instead they designed it so that each core was a individual core which resulted in a B2 stepping bug and their upcoming 8 core processor will problem have a B4 stepping bug in it also.
But to be honest, I really like AMD because they build a processor from the ground up unlike Intel does.
*Citation Needed*