Details of New Intel Dunnington and Nehalem Architectures Leaked

Daily Tech is reporting that details about Intel's new processor models were leaked over the weekend. Both the six core Dunnington and Nehalem architectures were featured in this leak. "Dunnington includes 16MB of L3 cache shared by all six processors. Each pair of cores can also access 3MB of local L2 cache. The end result is a design very similar to the AMD Barcelona quad-core processor; however, each Barcelona core contains 512KB L2 cache, whereas Dunnington cores share L2 cache in pairs. [...] Nehalem is everything Penryn is -- 45nm, SSE4, quad-core -- and then some. For starters, Intel will abandon the front-side bus model in favor of QuickPath Interconnect; a serial bus similar to HyperTransport."

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Re:6 cores times 3MB = 16MB?

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Why not post your comment in the .. uh, comment. You can imagine what I should see in the subject.

Pet peeve. I'm sick of getting emails like this:
Subject: What are we going to do
Message: about our employees looking at porn all day?