"The current EX processors, Nehalem-EX, are available under the Xeon 6500/7500 brands and were introduced in March. Featuring 6 cores and 12 threads on a 45nm fab, they are Intel's fastest processors to date." They actually have 4, 6 or 8 cores. At the end of the article the correct count is stated.
Read the article at all? AMD has 12 core opterons now. This is not about your puny desktop epeen needs. And I dont think that *you* in particular know jack about AMD and Intel in 2011...
I would have assumed that the next Xeon EX refresh would be based on the 32 nm Sandy Bridge core, rather than Westmere. Assuming that Intel sticks with the Xeon EX's 2 year refresh cycle, Sandy Bridge would seem ideal.
I wonder if the changes to Sandy Bridge make it incompatible with the current Nehalem EX sockets, in the same way that future consumer Sandy Bridge CPUs will be incompatible with current Bloomfield/Lynfield chips (socket 1366/1156)?
I'd expect any architectural changes on SB will require a new socket. Intel don't have many NC pins on most of their sockets. Any additional Tx/Rx pairs resulting from integration (or memory bus width) will require a socket change.
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classy - Monday, May 10, 2010 - link
What I find interesting is they are preparing for Bulldozer already. Sounds like they may have already got some hard info on what it may do.puffpio - Monday, May 10, 2010 - link
Is it really Mangy Cours? or Magny Cours? (it's named after the city in France, not a pun on dirty cores?)Casper42 - Monday, May 10, 2010 - link
Yes to City in France.AMD is/was naming processors after Cities that host F1 Racing events.
Barcelona, Shanghai, Magny Cours, etc.
Casper42 - Monday, May 10, 2010 - link
Its almost like why bother.Most large OEMs havent even shipped Nehalem-EX, why are they "announcing" Westmere-EX?
No Specs, Benchmarks, Dates, nothing?
Might as well launch Sandy Bridge right now on the desktop while they are at it. Might be out sooner than Westmere-EX.
stimudent - Monday, May 10, 2010 - link
Do these chips come with the same ethics violations programmed into the instruction sets that are also programmed into Intel's corporate culture?KaarlisK - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - link
"The current EX processors, Nehalem-EX, are available under the Xeon 6500/7500 brands and were introduced in March. Featuring 6 cores and 12 threads on a 45nm fab, they are Intel's fastest processors to date."They actually have 4, 6 or 8 cores. At the end of the article the correct count is stated.
Rajinder Gill - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - link
Thanks, fixed!IntelUser2000 - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - link
(The title is kinda funny. What's "Super" about it? Can we get a "Normal" or "Extreme" Westmere-Ex please? :P)The core count on Westmere-EX is said to be 10.
ReaM - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - link
I think AMD should have released 8 cores instead of 6.It would beat Intel lineup for the rest of the year. I wish I could buy 51% of AMD stock^^.
2011 does not look good for AMD. At least, we do already know how good intels 32nm is and by then it will be even better.
Griswold - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - link
Read the article at all? AMD has 12 core opterons now. This is not about your puny desktop epeen needs. And I dont think that *you* in particular know jack about AMD and Intel in 2011...JaBro999 - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - link
I would have assumed that the next Xeon EX refresh would be based on the 32 nm Sandy Bridge core, rather than Westmere. Assuming that Intel sticks with the Xeon EX's 2 year refresh cycle, Sandy Bridge would seem ideal.I wonder if the changes to Sandy Bridge make it incompatible with the current Nehalem EX sockets, in the same way that future consumer Sandy Bridge CPUs will be incompatible with current Bloomfield/Lynfield chips (socket 1366/1156)?
Rajinder Gill - Sunday, May 16, 2010 - link
Hi,I'd expect any architectural changes on SB will require a new socket. Intel don't have many NC pins on most of their sockets. Any additional Tx/Rx pairs resulting from integration (or memory bus width) will require a socket change.
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