As Intel Corp. continues to innovate its series of microprocessors, the co’s primary focus remains persistently towards increased processing capabilities while achieving footprint reduction.Intel's first processor with more than four cores will launch within less than two weeks, a leak from within the industry claims. The architecture previously codenamed Dunnington technology should start shipping on September 15th as the Xeon 7400 series and will carry its planned six cores, helping out with particuarly demanding computing tasks, especially virtualization of multiple operating systems.
The last of the Penryn class enterprise processors is on the way. Boasting a huge 16MB L3 cache. This is Intel’s first step beyond four cores cores . The new Xeon 7400 (Dunnington) will have six cores and be the first using the new monolithic design - multiple cores on a single die. The Xeon xeon 7400 will be socket compatible with Xeon 7300 boards which will allow for simple upgrades with little downtime.Since this will be the last of this server era from Intel, it may not see much daylight as large entities are already planning their road map towards Nehalem nehalem , especially due to the architecture’s scalability. On a side note - if rumors continue to hold true, we should be seeing the Core i7 (Nehalem) line rolling out by the end of this year.
Intel hasn't slipped clock speeds for the Xeon 7400 series but will likely keep to its earlier patterns and target the six-core processor at high-end workstations and servers where a large number of parallel tasks is essential. The design is the last new Penryn-era processor and will be followed later in the fall by the Core i7 (formerly Nehalem) architecture for future Xeon chips.
The six-core Xeon 7400 processor will be available from Intl. Business Mach (IBM), Unisys (UIS), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Hewlett-Packard (HP), and Dell (DELL) starting mid September.
