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Intel Unveils Most POWERFUL CHIP

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comp@ddict
comp@ddict Original post #1
Sep 17, 2008 at 4:08 PM
The WORLD's largest Chipmaker Intel Corporation on Tuesday unveiled its most powerful SIX-CORE microprocessor designed and developed at its India development centre.

The 45nm chip boasts of 1.9 BILLION transistors, six processing cores and 16MB of shared memory in the XEON family.

The XEON Server Processor on which a host of applications can be built for Virtualised environments and data-demanding workloads such as databases, business intelligence and enterprise resource planning(ERP) enhances performance by 50PERCENT, consuming much LESS POWER than it's earlier versions-quad core and dual core processors.

"Platforms based in this enterprise chip can be scaled up to 16 PROCESSOR SOCKETS to deliver servers with 96 PROCESSING CORES inside, offering scalability, ample computing threads, extensive memory resources and reliability for enterprise data centers."



Prices of these XEONS will be anything between 856$ to 2,729$ !
*www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9449&Itemid=1
G
Sep 17, 2008 at 4:19 PM
I want one!
comp@ddict
Sep 17, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Lolz, they've placed it at such a high price, and I was hoping for cheaper Quad Cores
MetalheadGautham
Sep 18, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Sun ULTRA SPARC T3 still pwns this :p
comp@ddict
Sep 19, 2008 at 1:51 PM
I do wish they reduce the price of the Q6600 further for making it possible for amm aadmi's like us to fit it in our aam rig