Intel’s Dunnington, Tukwila, Nehalem and Larrabee
Mar 19th, 2008 | By Premnath Sah | Category: TechnologyJust 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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