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Intel’s Dunnington, Tukwila, Nehalem and Larrabee

Mar 19th, 2008 | By Premnath Sah | Category: Technology

Just days after Intel announcing low power processor “atom” and AMD releasing “spider” and announcing upcoming laptop processor “Puma“, Intel is announcing their roadmap for future processors.

Dunnigton:

  • 6 core processor
  • 45nm process
  • Server processor (XEON range)
  • Advanced virtualization and live migration features

Tukwila:

  • Next generation Itanium processors
  • 4 core processor
  • huge 30MB cache
  • Quickpath interconnect (like AMD hypertransport)
  • mainframe class RAS features
  • expected to be twice as powerful as current generation Itanium

Nehalem:

  • Next generation microarchitecture
  • Scalable from 2 to 8 cores
  • each core can process upto 2 thread. leading to 16 thread capability
  • 4 times more memory bandwidth (thanks to Quickpath)
  • upto 8MB l3 cache
  • Integrated memory controller (another feature pioneered by AMD)
  • Integrated graphics (competition to AMD fusion?)
  • supports DDR3 800,1066,1333.
  • 256KB l2 cache (so small?)
  • 2 level TLB (Translation lookaside buffer)

Larrabee:

  • Visual computing
  • Advanced graphics
  • Physics engine
  • wide SIMD vector processing unit

with the above Intel also mentioned about Intel AVX (Advanced Vector Extension)

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