Intel announced Monday that it expects to ship a six-core processor to OEMs in the second half of this year. With 1.9 billion transistors and 16MB of L3 cache, the six-core chip, code-named Dunnington, will be built with Intel's new 45 nanometer (nm) technology, according to Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise group. "The big cache and six cores will give customers a nice bump in performance," Gelsinger said during a press briefing today to talk about the company's product roadmap and its upcoming Intel Developer's Forum slated to be held next month in Shanghai.
This announcement comes after AMD confirmed that it has started shipping its triple-core Phenom processors just last week, and again pushes Intel well-ahead of its chief rival. However, it's not necessarily a terribly damaging development for AMD. According to Dan Olds, an analyst with the Gabriel Consulting Group, "for AMD, it just means that they're falling a little bit further behind...a six-core is a big deal, but most desktop software can't really take advantage of dual-core yet..."
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This announcement comes after AMD confirmed that it has started shipping its triple-core Phenom processors just last week, and again pushes Intel well-ahead of its chief rival. However, it's not necessarily a terribly damaging development for AMD. According to Dan Olds, an analyst with the Gabriel Consulting Group, "for AMD, it just means that they're falling a little bit further behind...a six-core is a big deal, but most desktop software can't really take advantage of dual-core yet..."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(CPU_architecture)
like the phenom 3 core, which is a 4 core with 1 failed core
i agree with some other posters here tho, i think there is a limit to how much adding more cores will speed things up for how much it continues to add to the cost of the chip...
Only one can dream.
Now 6 cores why 6. I already have a Xeon 8 Core i use for mencoder threads = 7. Seems like they want to make a distinction between the home/business class markets.
It isn't a real term.
It isn't a real term.
It is if you are talking about qbits (i.e quantum computing)
theres no way they can match that now
its a shame really, AMD really made good CPUs back in the day
I have to admit though, AMD have been very quiet these days. Intel is definitely giving them a severe beating, so AMD could be quietly wrapping things up for good or working on a project to help fight back at Intel. Only time will tell I guess.
I have to admit though, AMD have been very quiet these days. Intel is definitely giving them a severe beating, so AMD could be quietly wrapping things up for good or working on a project to help fight back at Intel. Only time will tell I guess.
Fusion? LOL WHAT A JOKE
i dont know anyone in there right mind who would want to use a cpu and gpu combined
it be like "OMFG lets go back to onboard
On one hand it's great that computing is advancing in such a quick and exciting way as this. It definitely seems the way forward and is putting some incredible power into PC's and servers.
On the flip side of this, can't anyone just see another GHz race developing? Who gets more cores? I sort of worry that Intel will make a mistake somewhere along the way. It's no secret that AMD's multicore architecture is technically superior to Intel's, even if Intel's is the most well used - but I sort of forsee Intel making the same mistake before as they did before a big fall from grace and needing to go back and re-evaluate what they're doing. At least it would give AMD some time to catch up if they did!
Not anymore. With Nehalem intel is gonna use the same topology as AMD apparently
Last edited by Arkos Reed on 18 Mar 2008 - 12:23
Well thats great news for people wanting the best from their processors. Unfortunate for AMD though really
Well thats great news for people wanting the best from their processors. Unfortunate for AMD though really
Indeed unfortunate, 'word on the street' is that the performance increase between the current Quad Cores and Nehalem will be along the same lines as the performance increase as the jump from Pentium D to Core 2 Duo. And given that AMD were way late into the game, it certainly doesn't bode well for them!
whats to say he doesn't have 64bit XP?
Also, do you have a point?
AMD has real LOW End strength & thats where volumne is & lets face it: AMD has lot'o FABS.
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