Monday, March 31, 2008

Intel to build first six-core chip


March 18, 2008 10:31 AM PDT


Intel shows off its first six-core processor, called Dunnington, which will
be available in the second half of 2008. Dunnington is based on the
45nm high-k process technology and is composed of 1.9 billion
transistors. It contains a 16MB L3 cache, is socket compatible with the
Caneland platform, and is made for virtualization.

Tom Krazit has more details of Intel's new chips and graphics processor.

Correction: This gallery initially misstated the number of
transistors Dunnington is composed of. It's composed of 1.9 billion
transistors.

Credit: Intel

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http://www.news.com/2300-1010_3-6234743.html?tag=ne.gall.rbcs