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Intel Unveils 6-Core Xeon 7400

Posted by kdawson on from the not-cheaper-by-the-half-dozen dept.

JagsLive recommends CNet coverage that begins "Intel officially unveiled its six-core 'Dunnington' Xeon 7400 processor Monday ... As expected, Intel launched the Dunnington chip for high-end servers ... The Xeon 7400 is also one of the first Intel chips to have a monolithic design. In other words, all six cores will be on one piece of silicon. To date, for any processor having more than two cores, Intel has put two separate pieces of silicon ... inside one chip package."

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  1. Yes! It should totally be a power of two. by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think they're really making 8-core chips but their factories are primitive so normally only about six of them work.

    These chips are all defective. I wouldn't buy one and neither should you.

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    1. Re:Yes! It should totally be a power of two. by ShadowRangerRIT · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why are you responding to speculation/a joke as if it were fact? This is a native six core chip, not an eight core with two disabled.

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    2. Re:Yes! It should totally be a power of two. by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why are you responding to a fact as if it's speculation or a joke?

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    3. Re:Yes! It should totally be a power of two. by Gilmoure · · Score: 4, Funny

      I steal my computers from really rich orphans. 'Course, if they have parents, it takes just a little work and they're soon orphans.

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    4. Re:Yes! It should totally be a power of two. by rugatero · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why the hell am I responding at all?

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  2. I want one.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I would love to get a new mobo and one of these chips and install it in my Mac.....oh wait, nevermind.

  3. Re:Base 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    6 = 8 - 2 broken cores ?

  4. It has six cores... by halcyon1234 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and a moisturizer strip for a cool, refreshing finish.

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    1. Re:It has six cores... by shams42 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Did Intel partner with Gillette on this CPU? http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930

    2. Re:It has six cores... by hansamurai · · Score: 1, Funny

      Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of processors in this country. The Core 2 Duo was the processor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-core processor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Quad Core. That's four processors and an aloe heatsink. For cooling. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happenedâ"the bastards went to five cores. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling four cores and a heatsink. Cooling or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to six cores.

      Sure, we could go to five cores next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, four worked out pretty well, and five is the next number after four. So let's play it safe. Let's make a thicker aloe heatsink and call it the QuadCoreSuperHeatsinkTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!

      You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-core game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Intel is the best a man can get.

      What part of this don't you understand? If two cores is good, and three cores is better, obviously six cores would make us the best fucking processor that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the processor game by clinging to the two-core industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five core is the biggest chance of all.

      Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to inventâ"I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more cores in there. I don't care how. Make the cores so thin they're invisible. Put some on the handle. I don't care if they have to cram the sixth core in perpendicular to the other five, just do it!

      You're taking the "safety" part of "safety processor" too literally, grandma. Cut the strings and soar. Let's hit it. Let's roll. This is our chance to make processor history. Let's dream big. All you have to do is say that six cores can happen, and it will happen. If you aren't on board, then fuck you. And if you're on the board, then fuck you and your father. Hey, if I'm the only one who'll take risks, I'm sure as hell happy to hog all the glory when the six-core processor becomes the shaving tool for the U.S. of "this is how we compute now" A.

      People said we couldn't go to four. It'll cost a fortune to manufacture, they said. Well, we did it. Now some egghead in a lab is screaming "Six's crazy?" Well, perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the labs at IBM, working on fucking PowerPCs. RISC architecture, my white ass!

      Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we should just ride in AMD's wake and make pens. Ha! Not on your fucking life! The day I shadow a penny-ante outfit like AMD is the day I leave the processor game for good, and that won't happen until the day I die!

      The market? Listen, we make the market. All we have to do is put her out there with a little jingle. It's as easy as, "Hey, computing with anything less than six cores is like folding your proteins by hand." Or "You'll be so fast, you'll be finding Mersenne primes like a guy on speed." Try "You'll have so many cores, there won't be enough space radio signals for you to pretend to find aliens out of."

      I know what you're thinking now: What'll people say? Mew mew mew. Oh, no, what will people say?! Grow the fuck up. When you're on top, people talk. That's the price you pay for being on top. Which Intel is, always has been, and forever shall be, Amen, six cores, sweet Jesus in heaven.

      Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another aloe heatsink on that fucker, too. That's right. Six cores, two heatsinks, and make the second one lather. You heard meâ"the second heatsink lathers. It's a whole new way to think about processing. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edgeâ"the Moore's edgeâ"and I feel like dancing.

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  5. Re:Base 2 by davidbrit2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, 6 is a power of 2. It's 2^2.585, to be inexact.

  6. so this means by nimbius · · Score: 4, Funny

    i might finally be able to play crysis on my vista ultimate machine? i mean, granted, my pc will look more like a LHC when im through with it...but a few black holes are worth it

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  7. Re:Base 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    2^(log2(6)) to be exact.

  8. Re:Specs? by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 2, Funny

    OFC if your dealing with server, then it does make a difference for example Unisys 96 core offering (*nix & possible mac only) would be able to hold 256 SQL server databases ... or vista pro

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  9. Re:Base 2 by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pentium 1 user, aren't you?

  10. Re:Monolithic? by Cygfrydd · · Score: 3, Funny

    My god... it’s full of stars...

  11. Now you can open six tabs in Chrome... by javilon · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... and each one will have it's own processor core.

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  12. And how will you power it build your own nuclear p by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 3, Funny

    And how will you power it build your own nuclear power plant?

  13. Re:Monolithic? by GooberToo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thankfully the core Python developers have been telling us that continued hardware development of adding more cores is simply not happening. Furthermore, this evolution of continued development is simply wrong, bad, and is silly. To make matters worse, we are all delusional and no one is running more than one core and anyone leveraging more than one core is using their computer poorly and inefficiently.

    Thankfully, here very soon, we'll all reason that Intel, AMD, ATI, and NVIDIA are all doing the wrong thing and making use of additional cores (and especially SMP) is always the worst way of increasing concurrency.

    In all seriousness, hopefully these guys will realize they are dreaming and actually bother to increase scalability with sane, proper, scalable, and programmer friendly methods for doing so.

  14. Re:With a catch.... by Kingrames · · Score: 4, Funny

    64 cores should be enough for anybody.

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  15. I Want by WED+Fan · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm holding out for a 12 core processor.

    I'm also holding out for a razor blade with 6 blades, screw those wimpy 5 blade razors that Tiger is pitching right now. (F*ck, I have a beard, why do I want a razor blade? Screw it, I'm still waiting for 6 blades.)

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    1. Re:I Want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      F*ck, I have a beard, why do I want a razor blade?

      So you can quit the carnival and get a regular waitress job

  16. Re:Wattage by 427_ci_505 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Watt you say?

    You have no chance to survive make your time.