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8-Core Intel Nehalem-EX To Launch This Month

Posted by Soulskill on from the double-the-cores-for-only-twice-the-price dept.

MojoKid writes "What could you do with 8 physical cores of CPU processing power? Intel's upcoming 8-core Nehalem-EX is launching later this month, according to Intel Xeon Platform Director Shannon Poulin. The announcement puts to rest rumors that the 8-core part might be delayed, and makes good on a promise Intel made last year when the chip maker said it would release the chip in the first half of 2010. To quickly recap, Nehalem-EX boasts an extensive feature-set, including up to 8 cores per processor, up to 16 threads per processor with Intel Hyper-threading, scalability up to eight sockets via Intel's serial Quick Path Interconnect and more with third-party node controllers, and 24MB of shared cache."

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  1. March of the penguins by suso · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah! My dream of the day when I can boot up and see penguins taking up the entire screen is almost here.

  2. minimum hardware required.... by rts008 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we know what will be needed to run Win 8, I guess.
    I better get started on my backyard fusion power plant....;-)

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  3. Re:Balance by vivek7006 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it have the memory I/O bandwidth to keep up with the CPUs?
    Yes
    When will I be able to actually buy a mother board with 8 of these 8 core CPUs
    When you move out of your parents garage.

  4. Finally! by sardaukar_siet · · Score: 5, Funny

    The end to "can it run Crysis?" jokes!

  5. Re:Balance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes... on Friday nights, me, her, and your mom do threesomes.

  6. Joy! I hope it comes with ... by freaker_TuC · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... super cool looking white plastic mold which fits my sochet and cool looking notepad!

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  7. Re:When will Moore's Law apply to Cores? by Solapse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Surely that'll be Core's Law?

  8. Flash by 0123456 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Better than that, with a properly multi-threaded web browser we'll be able to display sixteen animated Flash ads simultaneously with no slowdown!

  9. Somebody's gotta ask... by unitron · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, how soon until newegg.com has the fake ones in stock?

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  10. Re:It's obvious by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who is talking about servers? I'm thinking about my home machines, you know, where the client-side javascript runs...

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