Intel Planning 6-Core “Dunnington” Microprocessor
- Filed under: Rumors
- Date: Feb 23,2008
According to the chaps at the Eclipse Developer’s Journal (EDJ), Intel is planning a six-core microprocessor, which will go by the Dunnington moniker.
The six-core beast will be succeeded by the even meatier, Nehalem micro-architecture, which will support greater than eight cores.
The work regarding the Dunnington project is still under wraps, but our friends at EDJ insist Intel has already put together a die, the size of a postage stamp, with three dual-core 45nm Penryn chips on it sharing a 16MB L3 cache.
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