Intel’s Dunnington - Previewed
February 25, 2008
What is Dunnington?
Dunnington is Intel’s not yet released 45nm 6-core Xenon Processor. Slated to succeed Intel’s Tigerton 65nm Xenon Processor.
What’s with the Hype?
The specs and details were not supposed to be made public for some time. However, “somehow” SUN mismanaged their resources and spilled the beans earlier this week.
These sexy beasts include 16MB of L3 cache that will be shared by all six cores. Seperated into pairs, the “core-pairs” will also have 3MB of L2 cache available for use. Each chip will contain updated instruction sets such as — SSE4. Intel will also be abandoning the dated Front-side bus model for a system similar to AMD’s Hypertransport.
When can you expect to see these running your servers?
Speculation has led us all to believe that we will be able to pickup Dunnington sometime during Q4 2008.
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