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Wednesday Intel took the veil off the next iteration of its Xeon server line, the Nehalem EX, which will make its debut in the second half of this year. Nehalem EX has a maximum of 8 cylinders, making a total of 16 threads in the socket (with hyperthreading). That’s a bunch of kids on a socket, so it is good that the Intel chip is equipped with many I / S and memory bandwidth in the form of four two QPI links and integrated memory controllers. It also helps to keep the samples are fed a 24 MB cache.

The set weighs 2.3 billion transistors, which is even bigger than the record of 2 billion transistor “Tukwila ‘Itanium, Intel announced that in February last year. At that time, Intel quad-core Tukwila processor is the largest and the fact that some x86 trapped in size and will be launched soon (Tukwila is delayed again) said something about where Xeon is directed.

Nehalem EX packing a blow when the yield falls later this year, continues March x86 decades in high-end server market. I interpret the recent observations of the x86 virtualization, which IBM is not ready for actual use in mission-critical applications in the light of this reality. Not that Nehalem-EX-systems are an immediate threat to IBM POWER line, but since the company sells systems based on the chips will still care to emphasize the benefits of its own against high-end functionality and greater performance Intel. This is particularly important now, since IBM has been involved in the Nehalem-EX revealing all in a 64-core, 128 thread your own server based on the new processor.

Intel gave a demo of its eight-core, 2.3 billion-transistor Nehalem-EX, which is set to launch later this year.

Here’s the full Nehalem-EX feature bullet list:

* Intel Nehalem Architecture built on Intel’s unique 45nm high-k metal gate technology process
* Up to 8 cores per processor
* Up to 16 threads per processor with Intel® Hyper-threading
* Scalability up to eight sockets via Quick Path Interconnects and greater with third-party node controllers
* QuickPath Architecture with four high-bandwidth links
* 24MB of shared cache
* Integrated memory controllers
* Intel Turbo Boost Technology
* Intel scalable memory buffer and scalable memory interconnects
* Up to 9x the memory bandwidth of previous generation
* Support for up to 16 memory slots per processor socket
* Advanced RAS capabilities including MCA Recovery
* 2.3 billion transistors

AMD on the side of the barrier, the six-core Istanbul will be launched next week and take six-core Intel Xeon Dunnington. Dunnington, because it is a replacement for the legacy Intel Xeon QPI-pre-party is a kind of palliative to the Xeon line until Nehalem-multisocket go, it will be much easier to Istanbul QPI license width heavy band Nehalem-EX. The chip will last well beyond the scope of Istanbul in terms of performance.