Intel Nehalem-EX 8-core server processor coming this month
Reportedly, Intel is planning to announce a new server processor later this month. Called as Nehalem-EX, the chip boast of eight processing cores and is designed for high-end server systems. Interesting thing about this processor is that each of its physical cores will be able to run two threads simultaneously, giving the chip 64 virtual processing cores on servers.
Touted as the fastest Intel chip till date, it is built using 45nm fabrication process, and features 24MB of cache and 2.3 billion transistors.
The new processor will also contain separate buffered memory chips that can store data temporarily alongside the main memory for faster task execution.
Intel will also offer four memory channels per processor.
[via PC World]
