Is 4 Cores of raw physical processing power not enough for you? Do you often find your servers bogged down from never ending number crunching?
Never fear, Intel hears your cries for extreme power. Intel is readying it’s launch of Nehalem-EX processors for this month. The new processors will boast 8-cores, 16 threads and support for up to 8 processor sockets on a single board.
The Intel announcement states:
- 45nm process
- 8-cores per CPU
- 16 threads per CPU
- Up to 8 sockets
- QPI Architecture with four links
- 24MB of shared cache
- Memory controller integration
- Turbo Boost Technology
- 9 times the memory bandwidth of current Xeon 7400’s
- 16 memory slots per physical processor
- 2.3 billion transistors
