Processors producers in the past year stated about their plans with respect to release products with more than six cores. Intel is assembled to release an eight core processor with nehalem architecture , and AMD company within the next few years intended to release processors with twelve cores. Of course this core quantity can find a effective use only in the server segment; therefore, the corresponding products will be intended precisely for servers.
In ISSCC, which will take place in San- Francisco in the period from 8 to 12 February, Intel company is assembled to report detail about the 8 core processors xeon, produced on 45 NM technology. The presence of sixteen virtual core speaks, that the processors relate to the nehalem architecture . Each processor contains 2,3 billion transistors - this is three times more than in Bloomfield processors . It is possible to assume that the cache volume in the third level for beckton processors , which will be discussed in ISSCC, will reach 24 Mb.
With the motherboard , beckton processors will communicate on the QPI bus , which accomplishes 6,4 billion transactions per second. There are no precise data about the announcement periods of these processors. It is known only that they will require new motherboard with LGA 1567 socket. It is assumed that beckton processors will have a one chip layout - all eight core on one crystal. Related Products :
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