Intel Xeon Platform Director Shannon Poulin revealed recently that Intel will soon launch its eight core Nehalem-EX CPU, a Core i7-derived CPU good for systems containing up to eight processors.
The release announcement also puts to rest any concerns that the processor would be delayed, an event that would put a significant kink in Intel’s plans to dial up the competition in the face of AMD’s new server parts.
The new Nehalem-EX chip is being touted as one of the most significant performance leaps in the history of Intel’s Xeon lineup, and it boasts some compelling specs to get the job done:
- Up to 8 cores;
- 24MB L3 cache;
- Quad-channel memory;
- Inter-core and inter-component QPI links;
- Up to 16 DIMMs per CPU socket;
- Up to eight sockets per system;
- Hyper-Threading;
- and Turbo Boost.
Intel says that the new chip will improve memory bandwidth by 9x, database performance by >2.5x, integer throughput by >1.7x and floating point throughput by >2.2x when compared to the six core Xeon 7400 CPUs.
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