Rik Myslewski has written in its article on TheRegister.co.uk that Intel offered only a few new details about latest processor offerings at the ISSCC (International Solid-State Circuit Conference) today. The mayor announcement was the 45nm eight-core enterprise-level Nehalem-EX Xeon processor with 2.3 billion transistors.
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“Although Rusu provided no product-ID numbers - or clock rates or ship dates - the new Xeon is almost certain to be in the company’s 74xx line of enterprise-server chips, unless Intel defines it as the beginning of a new line, which is unlikely. The processor’s eight cores will each employ the company’s implementation of simultaneous multithreading (SMT) technology to support two simultaneous threads per core. Managing SMT extracts a performance penalty, but it should be less than 10 per cent, according to Intel’s Rajesh Kumar.
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