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Photos: Inside Intel's new chips By Tom Krazit and Alex Serpo, CNET News.com March 19, 2008 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/hardware/soa/Photos-Inside-Intel-s-new-chips/0,139023759,339287325,00.htm
As a drum-roll to its developer conference to be held in Shanghai in April, Intel has released details of its latest chip designs including the six-core Dunnington. Check out our photo gallery to get an insight into Intel's latest developments. 
Intel shows off its first six-core processor, called Dunnington, which will be available in the second half of 2008. Dunnington is based on the 45nm high-k process technology and is composed of 1.9 billion transistors. It contains a 16MB L3 cache, is socket compatible with the Caneland platform, and is made for virtualisation. Credit: Intel  Here is a diagram of Dunnington. The image gives the impression that this chip only contains three cores -- however each of the "cores" shown here is actually a double core, giving a total of six cores. The cache you can see totals 16MB. Credit: Intel  Shown here is Intel's versatile Nehalem chip. Nehalem is built off the 45nm architecture used in Intel's Penryn chips. Intel says its Nehalem chip is scalable from two to eight-cores and offers two-way simultaneous multithreading. It is set for production in the fourth quarter of 2008. Credit: Intel  Here's a map of a four core Nehalem variant. Intel claims that Nehalem contains "significant performance and efficiency enhancements", including "33 percent more parallelism." Credit: Intel
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