Intel Preps 6-Core Replacement to Tigerton
02.24.08 - 04:13pm
Intel is bringing out the big guns to capture the mainframe market. Dunnington, which consists of six Penryn cores on a single piece of silicon and a shared 12MB L3 cache. This processor will be destined for the 4-socket Tigerton system and will replace the 65nm quad-cores that had previously occupied such systems. While Dunnington will feature a 120w TDP, you are talking 20w per core which is identical or lower to the TDP for the previous Tigerton chips. Dunnington will be the final upgrade for the Tigerton s604 as Nehalem based chips support eight core and sixteen threads will launch in Q3 2008. Now all of you salivating over the above chips, be prepared to shell out a few thousand dollars for the low-end chips. Now the best part, it’s a monolithic core, AMD toted it’s quad-core as being superior, what do you say to a hexa-core?
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