Intel readies six-core chipTwice threeBy INQUIRER staff: Saturday, 23 February 2008, 10:59 AMCHIP FIRM Intel is preparing to introduce a six core chip called the "Dunnington", a processor that will pave the way for its Nehalem architecture later this year.According to Eclipse, the “Dunnington” was designed in Bangalore, and will use three dual core 45 nanometre Penryn processors with a shared 16MB L3 cache.It will use the “Clarksboro” chipset, the report said.
hmm interesting.. next thing we will see stream processing chips replacing our normal cpu's the way this is goin..
Quote from: Philosophical45 on February 23, 2008, 04:50:55 PMhmm interesting.. next thing we will see stream processing chips replacing our normal cpu's the way this is goin..Well Larabee if that's what it was called (I can't rememberm there's so many projects) is Intel's graphics chip that's being developed and it'll take the small multi-core approach since GPUs are already massively parallel. Also intel has its' own mini core project running already where they demoed 80 mini cores on 1 CPU package running windows XP. So in a sense that is already in the works my good man.
