Details of New Intel Dunnington and Nehalem Architectures Leaked

Daily Tech is reporting that details about Intel's new processor models were leaked over the weekend. Both the six core Dunnington and Nehalem architectures were featured in this leak. "Dunnington includes 16MB of L3 cache shared by all six processors. Each pair of cores can also access 3MB of local L2 cache. The end result is a design very similar to the AMD Barcelona quad-core processor; however, each Barcelona core contains 512KB L2 cache, whereas Dunnington cores share L2 cache in pairs. [...] Nehalem is everything Penryn is -- 45nm, SSE4, quad-core -- and then some. For starters, Intel will abandon the front-side bus model in favor of QuickPath Interconnect; a serial bus similar to HyperTransport."

Dunnington and Nehalem?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like good names to be used in a D&D game!

Sir Dunnington against the evil lich lord Nehalem!

Wow

[TubeSteak]

They could have gone to 3 cores, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do, but they said "Fuck it, we're going to six". What part of this don't you understand? If two cores is good, and four cores is better, obviously six cores would make them the best fucking CPU that ever existed.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930 [theonion.com]
/I'm just waiting for the day Intel says "this one goes to 11"

But...

[chinkuone]

Still doesn't run Crysis.

Intel still playing the Chuck Norris of vendors...

[TeknoDragon]

QuickPath: because Intel doesn't adopt standards... it rewrites them.

Re:Wow

[downix]

Intel's coming out with 6 cores.... and?

*pets his 8-core SPARC*

Welll....

[downix]

Does it go to 11?

Re:6 cores times 3MB = 16MB?

[Hes Nikke]

your forgetting the L1 cache, maybe 128-256 KB per core... thats up to another meg and a half!

Re:But...

[will.perdikakis]

...or Vista

Re:6 cores times 3MB = 16MB?

[sssssss27]

Which kind of puts in perspective just how long Duke Nukem Forever has been in development. It's almost getting to the point where the CPU alone meets the minimum requirements for RAM.

Re:Wow

[suso]

For all we know, someone at Intel just thought the "sex-" prefix would be funny, rather than the expected "quad-" or "octo-".

Note how they called the it the (Pent)ium II instead of the (Sex)ium processor.

Re:Wow

[xSauronx]

Next they're going to bump it up to 11, for when you need just a little more oomph to get your work done.

Re:Wow

[dgatwood]

Forget prefix. Here's a marketing name suggestion: Core 2 Sexi. The commercial practically writes itself!

It's from the book of Armaments

[hcdejong]

...then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then l...

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't burst his balloon man. Can't you see he's hot to buy something from Marketing?