(TheForceField.Net ) March 18, 2008 — Intel Corp. announced yesterday that it plans to release a six core processor before the end of 2008.
Intel, a leading manufacturer of processors and microchip technology, disclosed features of the chip architecture in a press briefing yesterday. In the briefing, Pat Gelsinger, Intel Vice Senior President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, discussed several processors including the Dunnington mutli-core processor for servers, the next-generation Itanium processor known as Tukwila and Nehalem, which Intel says is scalable from two to eight cores.
Gelsinger said Dunnington is the first Intel Architecture 45nm processor with six cores and is socket compatible with the Caneland platform. Gelsinger indicated the processor would be available in the second half of 2008.
Tukwila is a four core Itanium processor with a 30MB cache, dual integrated memory controller and RAS. It is the world's first processor with two billion transisters, according to Intel.
Nehalem will include simultaneous multi-threading with four to sixteen threads, up to 8MB level-3 cache, QUickpath interconnects at speeds up to 25.6GB/sec integrated memory controller and optional integrated graphics. Nehalem is designed to scale from servers to notebooks and will be scalable up to eight cores.
Details of Intel's Multicore ArchitectureBriefing are available on their web site.