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Nehalem will get 8 cores in 2H 2009 |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 09:50 |
At 45nm, confirmed
Nehalem's Chief Architect, Ronan Singhal, has confirmed Fudzilla that Nehalem will get its eight-core version in the second half of 2009.
We also learned that such a chip will be more than twice as large as the quad-core Nehalem and that we should expect TDPs around 150W level. The chip will have much more cache than 8MB that you see on Quad-core Nehalem-EX, the server part.
Eight-core Nehalem would definitely have a lot of cache and it will come at significantly lower frequency compared to the highest clocked quad-core Bloomfield CPUs. We also learned that such a chip will be announced, used and sold as a server / workstation part and that Intel is investigating whether it makes sense to launch such a chip for desktop market.
At this point its unlikely that eight-core Nehalem will make it to desktop, as in applications such as games it could easily end up slower than quad-cores, due its lower clock.
You should look at this chip as a Dunnington 6-core successor and eight-core Nehalem will end up as a 45nm chip.
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