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Intel Confirms, 8-core 'Nehalem-EX' Processor this fall



28 May 2009 @ 10:23 am AEST

Intel has confirmed the release of a server carrying 8-core 'Nehalem-EX' Processor in the second half of 2009. The firm says that the new chips can convey a number of new technical enhancements and boost enterprise computing performance.

The new 'Nehalem-EX' Processor features up to 8-cores inside a single chip supporting 16 threads and 24Mb of cache, offers up to nine times the memory bandwidth of the previous-generation Intel Xeon 7400 platform.

The firm also noted that Nehalem-EX server processor will include Machine Check Architecture (MCA) Recovery which helps reducing data corruption ensuring reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) a technology originally from its high-end Itanium chips.

In addition, the powerful chip core will also twofold the memory capacity with up to 16 memory slots per processor socket. It can offer four high-bandwidth Quick Path Interconnect links.

Nehalem-EX provides scalability; from large-memory two-socket systems through 8-socket systems capable of processing 128 threads concurrently even without any third-party chips to stick the platform mutually.

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