Intel’s 6-Core Chip

Thats pretty much it, but its still intense. I’m not sure if they have any plans of making a desktop counterpart, that, and i don’t really see the point at current. Dunnington, a 45nm Xeon with 16mb of L3 cashe, from the Penryn fam, will be the next offering after Tigerton. On that, it will be compatible with the current Tigerton pin configuration as well as the current chipset.

On a final note, it will be a couple firsts for Intel, one being that all six cores will be on one piece of silicon, the other being an on-die memory controller. Which AMD has been doing for a while now, and what gave them the edge when they first introduced it, so we’ll just have to see what it does for Intel.

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