Intel may launch six core CPUs this year

[LordJuanlo]

Intel Corp. may release six-core microprocessors as early as in the second half of this year, according to a number of media reports. However, if those claims are correct, then it may mean not only another powerful central processing unit for Intel and a threat to chips from Advanced Micro Devices, but also a further delay in unification of Intel Itanium and Intel Xeon platforms.

Source at Xbits (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20080223171111_Intel_Plans_to_Launch_Six_Core_Micr oprocessors_Later_This_Year.html).

[Buckeye]

Sweet, that could mean 12 cores on SkullTrail :)

Now if Nvida could get 8 GPU's on one board ...

[Feyy]

Will those 6 cores be native or....?

Edit: According to an article it will be 3 Dual Core Penryns :p

[Madpistol]

Will those 6 cores be native or....?

Edit: According to an article it will be 3 Dual Core Penryns :p

ooooooo that's hot. :firedevil





I'm serious. Those cores will probably cook themselves.

oh, and can you post a link to "an article" Feyy?

[Amuro]

Nehalem can have more than 8 cores, so a 6 core is definitely possible. Maybe two of the cores are not general purpose, one of them is a GPU?

[methimpikehoses]

2 more cores sitting there dormant... ftw?

[LORD-eX-Bu]

2 more cores sitting there dormant... ftw?

QFT.

unless you're encoding or benchmarking I hardly see a reason to have more than a dual core cpu at the moment :lol:

[Butter Bandit]

2 more cores sitting there dormant... ftw?

+2

When messing around with quad cores vs dual cores, I can't tell much of a difference. Give me more ghz k thx.

[LORD-eX-Bu]

I bought my e6700 off of Tiki back in December of 06... it'l probably hold me over till Nehalem... maybe even longer :D

[ViN86]

QFT.

unless you're encoding or benchmarking I hardly see a reason to have more than a dual core cpu at the moment :lol:
heh and some ppl wondered why i went with a dual core.

[Runningman]

QFT.

unless you're encoding or benchmarking I hardly see a reason to have more than a dual core cpu at the moment :lol:
or running a VM server....

[K007]

First we need games to start making use of 4 cores ><

[nekrosoft13]

+2

When messing around with quad cores vs dual cores, I can't tell much of a difference. Give me more ghz k thx.

in games and OS there is no difference, but i do a bit of encoding and it makes a huge difference.

[lduguay]

in games and OS there is no difference, but i do a bit of encoding and it makes a huge difference.
W2K3 (and all other OSes) is heavily multi-threaded, multi-cores makes a big difference in a busy server environment.

[rhink]

First we need games to start making use of 4 cores ><

partly the chicken and the egg problem, though it's also partly due to the added difficulty of highly parallel code. Separating your code into 3 or 4 heavyweight chunks is fairly easy (course grained multi hreading), the finer grained stuff.... high degrees of parallelization inside those chunks starts getting harder.

[Ninja Prime]

Seems like the article is saying its a server-only processor, ala Itanium?

[SLippe]

Next we'll have 10-bladed razors. (omg)

[Runningman]

Seems like the article is saying its a server-only processor, ala Itanium?
not itanium, that a whole diffrent product line then the x86 processors that we use on our desktop.

[Runningman]

Next we'll have 10-bladed razors. (omg)
lol....one is good 10 is better....

[rhink]

Seems like the article is saying its a server-only processor, ala Itanium?

Probably going to be marketed as a server chip, because there's not much use in other markets until software catches up. I suppose people into 3D rendering and video encoding might drool over one, but that's a pretty small market, too.

No reason you couldn't use one as a desktop chip, assuming it'll fit in your standard nforce (or intel) desktop board without bios modifications. But probably won't do much for your average gamer.

[Amuro]

Will it benefit people into porn multi-accessing?

[Butter Bandit]

in games and OS there is no difference, but i do a bit of encoding and it makes a huge difference.

Oh, definitely helps out in encoding. I've got computers at work where having 6 cores would be beneficial since we encode alot of video to MPEG2, etc (we do cable advertising, so we deal with quite a bit of digital video).

But for the general user/gamer, there isn't alot to get excited about...yet.

[Ninja Prime]

Seems they just announced they are getting rid of Itanium, I think this is its replacement.

[jcrox]

we don't make good use of 4 cores outside of the multi-threaded business world... these things will be useless for the average person

[Runningman]

Seems they just announced they are getting rid of Itanium, I think this is its replacement.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36235/118/
itanium and x86 are completly diffrent ISO's..not compatible with each other.