“Late last month in Austria, Intel presented Sun with roadmaps discussing details of its upcoming server platforms, including the fairly secret Xeon Dunnington and Nehalem architectures. Unfortunately for some, this presentation ended up on Sun’s public web server over the weekend,” Kristopher Kubicki reports for Daily Tech.
“Dunnington, Intel’s 45nm six-core Xeon processor from the Penryn family, will succeed the Xeon Tigerton processor. Whereas Tigerton is essentially two 65nm Core 2 Duo processors fused on one package, Dunnington will be Intel’s first Core 2 Duo processor with three dual-core banks,” Kubicki reports. “Dunnington includes 16MB of L3 cache shared by all six processors.”
“Intel’s slide claims this processor will launch in the second half of 2008 — a figure consistent with previous roadmaps from the company,” Kubicki reports.
Full article with slides and benchmarks here.
[Attribution: MacNN. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
There comes my next Mac Pro.
Apple better has a wait for a real 8 core chip… Will also be coming sooner as expected and more energy friendly than these banked dual cores.
How long until it becomes feasible, or cost effective, to upgrade my 2.66Ghz Mac Pro with newer processors?
Finally, an improvement on the 4-assed monkey.
My head hurts!
Too fast, too much!
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Dunnington? Intel’s running out of names.
Can’t wait for an intel chip with an on-board memory controller.
If these chips get any faster, you’ll be able to order your new Mac Pro tomorrow and have it delivered yesterday.
With core count and memory sizes starting to increase fairly smartly, does anyone know how well 64 bit Vista scales to utilize them? I would expect the UNIX based OS X system to have a distinct edge in scaling performance over the Windows system, but have no information to support this. I’m wondering where the point of diminishing returns is for Vista and OS X, and am thinking that OS X may have a good message here. Of course how well the applications can make use of multiple cores is a whole other topic.
Vista (client) can only use 3.3GB of memory. With a simple patch, that can go to 4GB. It’s limited on the number of CPUs also.
Hrm dunno if mach can handle more than 8 processors yet…
@Harvey – Ask Bill. I think you’ll be told that 3.3GB is more memory than anyone will ever need.
Not sure what the point is. Most software doesn’t even use 2 cores let alone 6.
I’m holding out for the G5 Powerbook. I hear that is going to blow everything away!
doing my video editing, I could easily use a large pipeline and many cores