Saturday, February 23rd 2008
Intel Planning Six-Core Processor, Will Call it 'Dunnington'
Intel is planning on serving a heaping pile of pain to AMD's revenue/stock figures again in a few months, by developing a six-core juggernaut. While AMD is still tweaking on a way to merely get four cores to work in tandem, Intel is hard at work shoving two more cores on one die. This six-core monstrosity will be succeeded by the even beefier Nehalem micro-architecture, which could have up to eight cores on one die. Most of the Dunnington project is still top-secret, but some say that Intel already has most of the hard work done.
Source:
Gizmodo
Intel has already put together a die, the size of a postage stamp, with three dual-core 45nm Penryn chips on it sharing a 16MB L3 cache. Allegedly, we'll see the Dunnington in either Q2 or Q3, this year.
110 Comments on Intel Planning Six-Core Processor, Will Call it 'Dunnington'
This processor will be used for servers.
they guy who regulates prices should be shot in the face. and that goes for gas prices too. WTF?
most benchmarks are only single threaded
If you are, you should see 4 different Prime95 exe's in the task manager, and the all say 25% because they are all utilizing 100% of one specific core, or 25% of the total CPU power.
Heh, bring it on...........