News Intel readies six-core chip

[Tefra]

CHIP FIRM Intel is preparing to introduce a six core chip called the "Dunnington", a processor that will pave the way for its Nehalem architecture later this year.

According to Eclipse, the “Dunnington” was designed in Bangalore, and will use three dual core 45 nanometre Penryn processors with a shared 16MB L3 cache.

It will use the “Clarksboro” chipset, the report said.

Source: theinquirer.net

[weasel]

monster!! lol i wish games would support multi core more

[datoekplgd]

at 4 core chip we are still not really utilizing all of the power of "Quad Core". It's more lika a race between AMD and Intel after they got stuck with gigahertz race. Now they try to cram as much core as they can into a single chip.
So the "Core Wars" has begin...

[weasel]

core-wars lets bring on the octa-cores