Intel is going to deliver six-core Xeon Processor by the end of this year
10 March 2008Intel will start to put on the market six-core Xeon processors in second half of this year, informs PC World. Earlier the chips were code-named Dunnington.
The president and the main executive director of Intel Corporation Paul Otellini, addressing to investors at the conference in Santa Clara, state California, informed that the six-core processor will enter the family Intel Xeon MP 7000, and will be a component of the server platform Caneland based on Clarksboro chipset.
One platform will be able to support up to four six-core processors. It means that assemblers of computers can create 24-core systems by means of new Xeon.
Also Otellini has informed, that this year Intel will put on the market chips on the basis of Nehalem microarchitecture, which are Core’s successors.
In 2009 Intel plans to deliver processors on the base of Westmere microarchitecture, and in 2010 - on the base of Sandy Bridge. The president of the corporation has emphasized, that in 2011 Intel is going to start production of processors using 22-nonometer technology.
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