Intel 8-core Xeon processors between end 2009 and early 2010

[Pollock]

"From a recent interview to an Intel executive, it seems that the 8-core Xeon MP processors will be available on the market between the end of 2009 and early 2010"

Intel would have on the agenda of the presentation Xeon MP processors with 8 cores towards the end of this year or early in 2010. To say during an interview is Shannon Poulin, director of Intel server product group, as reported Xbitlabs. Xeon MP will be the name of the processor indicated by the code-named Nehalem-EX, credited much of 2.3 billion transistors.

This is a quantity of a transistor almost three times the processor Xeon and Core i7 on the market, processors quad-core Nehalem architecture together. Among the many improvements introduced are some important features such as the QPI technology, Quick Path Interconnect, replacing the front side bus connection between the processor, memory modules and, in some versions of the chipset and cpu also the return to technology Simultaneous Multi-Threading, the better known as the marketing of Hyper-Threading, which the operating system recognizes as the processor features a number of core logic double the core physically integrated.

By a simple account, it soon becomes clear that there was linearity between the growth of core (from four to eight) and that of TRANSISTORS, passing from 731 million in the current Xeon processor 2.3 billion to the well of the future Xeon MP 8-core . The transistors will be dedicated in excess, in all probability, to a considerable increase in the integrated cache and up to 24MB per uqanto concerns L3, as well as to specific performance improvements are not yet clear. Insights on the innovations introduced by Intel Xeon processors with 5500-based Nehalem architecture

[Aiden]

"specific performance improvements not yet clear" it will be still in the paperwork this is because Intel has recently has launched quad core and with in the 2 to 3 years it is launching 8-core its just unbelievable.

Increased L3 cache -> less memory accesses to temporally and spatially, as always.

[Arley]

I think they might have get idea to increase from the dual-core cpu's 16 physical and 32 logical.

Now there would be an tough competition between AMD and Intel, and AMD will wants to resume with the something or more like that