Dunnington, Intel's 45nm six-core Xeon processor


Intel has some goodies for us and it's about a new processor. Dubbed Dunnington, a six-core (three dual-core) Xeon in the Penryn famility working on the 45nm technology, it has 16MB shared L3 cache while each core has a 3MB L2 cache.It's supposed to come with a 1,066 MTs high speed interconnect, 40-bit physical addressing. It also supports new SSE4 instructions, should have on-die memory controllers and tri-channel DDR3 memory.

The new Intel Dunnington is a Socket mPGA604 and has a thermal design power rate, under 130W. The platform supports Clarksboro chipset and is pin compatible with Tigerton.

It's going to be launched in the second half of 2008 but as George Ou says, don't expect it to come with doubled performances as the Penryn we knew...

via DailyTech