Intel : First Xeon Processor with Eight Cores

While dual-core CPUs are standard today already and from week to week
more quad-core processors are sold, it's only a matter of time before
CPUs with eight cores to be the man. The Intel Core i7 makes it ever
been the beginning, even if it actually has only four cores, but watch
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In the desktop market, we can already be happy if the software at all
four cores can benefit, so it certainly will take some time to
octa-core CPUs will reach the market. Anders, on the other hand in the
server segment, as there are significantly more software, which is
adjusted accordingly. They are currently six cores already arrived.
New information about an octa-core derivative of the Xeon server
family is also a PDF document (page 22) are in circulation.

So Intel is on the "IEEE International Solid-State Circuits"
conference, in short (ISSCC), the 8th to 12 Of February, more than the
processor with eight "real" cores tell. According to the official
description, the eight-core processor, thanks to Hyper-Threading with
16 threads bypass can satte 2.3 billion transistors that are in the
45-nm process can be produced. The processor carries the code name
"Beckton" and will have four QPI connections with up to 6.4 GT / s
possess. The processor is placed on the LGA-1567 socket fit.

Because the Xeon processor with eight cores, however, more than three
times as many transistors as the Core i7 desktop part, but only twice
as many computing cores has presumed that, the cache is significantly
increased. From up to 24 MB L3 cache is the speech, but not yet safe.
However, the Beckton-CPU do not seem to be more this year, but appear
only in 2010. Thus, the Xeon-7400-family with four or six CPU cores
the whole year without a major update to stay.