Intel: New Nehalem chip has "dramatic" performance gains
Between the Lines —
... Intel said today that it will start producing a new, more powerful Xeon processor, called Nehalem-EX, later this year. The chip will feature eight cores and will support 16 threads and 24 MB of cache. In a statement , the company called the increased performance “dramatic, posting the highest-ever jump from a previous generation processor.” The company said it will offer up to nine times the memory bandwidth of the previous generation and double the memory capacity. It said the chip is ideal fort server consolidation, virtualized applications, data-heavy business apps and ...
Intel Offers Details On Xeon Nehalem-EX
TechWeb —
Intel on Tuesday disclosed details of its upcoming eight-core server processor that the chipmaker hopes will coax large companies from servers using the competing RISC design. Intel plans to begin production on the new chip, code-named Nehalem-EX, in the second half of the year. Computer systems leveraging the technology are expected early next year. Nehalem-EX will be added to Intel's Xeon line. Built on the chipmaker's current 45-nanometer manufacturing process, Nehalem-Ex will have eight processor cores on a single piece of silicon ...
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Betanews —
... the manufacturing facilities in the second half, increasing the number of cores from six to eight and designed each of those eight cores to handle two threads, not just one. (And discretion being the better part of valor, Reuters' reporter throws to the Intel press release rather than attempt further annotation.) ...
Switzerland sides with Microsoft...Facebook's $240 M payday...Digg shouts up
Betanews —
... the manufacturing facilities in the second half, increasing the number of cores from six to eight and designed each of those eight cores to handle two threads, not just one. (And discretion being the better part of valor, Reuters' reporter throws to the Intel press release rather than attempt further annotation.) ...
Intel Nehalem-EX server CPU: 8 cores, 16 threads, 64 DIMMS per platform
SlashGear —
... Intel have announced their latest Xeon processor, the eight-core Nehalem-EX. Intended for servers, though providing an interesting insight into what the consumer ...
Intel Xeon Nehalem-EX Processor
iTech News Net —
... controllers
QuickPath Architecture with four high-bandwidth links
24MB of shared cache
Integrated memory controllers
Intel Turbo Boost Technology
Intel scalable memory buffer and scalable memory interconnects
Up to 9x the memory bandwidth of previous generation
Support for up to 16 memory slots per processor socket
Advanced RAS capabilities including MCA Recovery
2.3 billion transistors
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Intel Xeon Nehalem-EX Processor Announced
Today Gadgets —
It’s not too surprise that Intel will release the new Xeon Nehalem-EX processor as the company have made available many of high-end processor, that has designed for work dual-processor server and workstation platforms. Promised to deliver a number of new technical advancements and boost enterprise computing performance, the Nehalem-EX Xeon features up to 8 core inside a single chip supporting 16 threads and 24Mb of cache. Other following specification include ;
Intel Nehalem Architecture built on Intel’s unique 45nm high-k metal gate technology process
Up to 8 cores per processor
Up to 16 threads per processor with ...


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