Intel Nehalem-EX 6-core processor coming in first half of 2010
Intel today announced that it will be unveiling its six core processor, called Nehalem-EX, in the first half of 2010. The newest Intel chip will be targeted towards High Performance Computing (HPC) segment and will reportedly optimize server performance.
The 6-core chip will run at higher frequencies than 8-core versions of the Nehalem-EX processors and will offer advantages on some HPC workloads.
Customers will benefit from greater memory bandwidth and capacity compared to today’s solutions, and will be able to build supercomputers with up to 256 such chips; a supercomputer cluster may contain many such machines.
