Tuesday, May 19th 2009
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Intel to Detail 8-core Nehalem-EX Processor Next Week
Having successfully established the Nehalem architecture-derived Core i7 series as the industry's fastest consumer processors available, and recently propagating the architecture to two-socket Xeon series for servers and high-end workstations, Intel is set to push up parallelism two-fold with the Nehalem-EX 8-core enterprise processor. The company will detail this new line of chips next week, although a commercial-launch can be expected only in late 2009 or early 2010.
The new chip will succeed the company's own Xeon E7000 "Dunnington" series 6-core processors, for having the highest available parallelism per socket. The 8 physical x86-64 processing cores will further feature HyperThreading technology, sending the logical-processor count to 16 threads per socket. Each processor packs 2.3 billion transistors. The processor will further be designed for systems with more than two sockets per board. Currently although server-builders sell 1U and 2U servers with more than two Nehalem quad-core processors, the system is designed by using two (or more) two-socket mainboards interconnected using Infiniband. The announcement will be made on May 26, in an address headed by Boyd Davis, Intel's general manager of Server Platforms Marketing Group.
Source:
CNET
The new chip will succeed the company's own Xeon E7000 "Dunnington" series 6-core processors, for having the highest available parallelism per socket. The 8 physical x86-64 processing cores will further feature HyperThreading technology, sending the logical-processor count to 16 threads per socket. Each processor packs 2.3 billion transistors. The processor will further be designed for systems with more than two sockets per board. Currently although server-builders sell 1U and 2U servers with more than two Nehalem quad-core processors, the system is designed by using two (or more) two-socket mainboards interconnected using Infiniband. The announcement will be made on May 26, in an address headed by Boyd Davis, Intel's general manager of Server Platforms Marketing Group.
35 Comments on Intel to Detail 8-core Nehalem-EX Processor Next Week
Before you get excited, these Beckton MP processors will start upwards of $2000 each.
(socket LGA 1567, 24MB L3)
A 4P Nehalem-EX box has more threads than employees where I work... virtualize their desktops, our existing servers, and there would still be leftover 'power' for BOINC ;)
*on a psp screen!
Nice to see some more advancement in CPUs. :D
:rockout:
AMD is behind no matter how you put it, nothing new here.
I want this to be ~500$ or less so I can get two! Or if anyone else has any ideas about how I can get eight i7 cores for that price - I'm all ears. Well.. not.. not really, but go on.
(for $470)
(~$260, common price for "mid-range" Core i7 boards).