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+- Intel unveils 6-core chip, as Unisys touts 96 core-> on Monday September 15 2008, @08:14PM JagsLive
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JagsLive writes "As Intel officially unveiled its six-core "Dunnington" Xeon 7400 processor Monday, Unisys rolled out servers boasting up to 96 cores--with a catch.
As expected, Intel launched the Dunnington chip for high-end servers, the company's first six-core processor and last of its Penryn-class chips. Penryn will be followed by the Nehalem microarchitecture, due to appear initially as the Core i7 processor in the fourth quarter.
The Xeon 7400 boasts significantly better performance due to its 16MB cache memory and half-dozen cores.
The Xeon 7400 is also one of the first Intel chips to have a monolithic design. In other words, all six cores will be on one piece of silicon. To date, for any processor having more than two cores, Intel has put two separate pieces of silicon--referred to as die--inside one chip package.
( http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10041308-92.html )"
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