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Intel targets 32-core processors in the future
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 09:05, 11th July 2006 GMT
Source: Xbit Labs
The worlds main supplier of microprocessors, Intel Corp., plans to offer a central processing unit for servers, which will be 15 times faster compared to todays chips and which will contain up to 32 processing engines, according to a media report.
The processor code-named Gulftown will have eight processing nodes with four cores on each one, according to TG Daily web-site, which may mean that the chip will consist of several physical dice. Every die will sport four processing engines, 3MB unified level-three cache, while every core will have 512KB L2 cache. The dice will be connected to each other using a ring architecture interconnect technology.
Intel already reportedly has project named Keifer, which is focused around many-core processors. Keifer is generally aimed at server market and will primarily compete against Suns Niagara processors, which micro-architecture is used in the companys UltraSparc T1 chips. So far Intel competed against ultra high-end server processors from Sun and IBM using its Itanium lineup of microprocessors. Currently it is unclear whether the Gulftown is based on the IA64 architecture, or still is an x86 microprocessor, however, on the slide published by TG Daily Intels Xeon 5100 (Woodcrest) chips are compared with the Gulftown.
Intel expects Keifer to result in a 15x performance jump over today's Xeon 5100 processors at just 2GHz clock speed, it is reported.
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