CPU cores are now the key to multi tasking and while quad-core processors are currently top of the line, Intel is already planning six-core processors.

Intel has prepared two variants of quad core xeon. One is called Dunnington and the second one is Nehalem although names will likely change by the time they are produced. Both of them are based on 45nm technologies and offer new solutions for reducing the energy use. Both will increase computer performance, but Gizmodo says that Nehalem is better.

Six cores, exciting! But not as exciting as Nehalem, which is Intel’s “dynamically scalable” new processor microarchitecture which’ll bring “dramatic performance and energy improvements” to Intel’s chips. And that means what?

The platform will scale from two to eight cores, and eventually from “notebooks to servers.” That’s the scalable part, so you’ll see it everywhere. Simultaneous Multi-Threading will let each core run two threads at once, plus it quadruples the memory-bandwidth of the current top-o’-the-line Xeons. It’s also got an 8MB level-3 cache, Quickpath interconnects (up to 25.6GB per second), integrated memory controller (AMD what?) and supports up to DDR3-1333 memory.

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