Intel Details Upcoming Gulftown Six-Core Processor 219
MojoKid writes "With the International Solid-State Circuits Conference less than a week away, Intel has released additional details on its upcoming hexa-core desktop CPU, next gen mobile, and dual-core Westmere processors. Much of the dual-core data was revealed last month when Intel unveiled their Clarkdale architecture. However, when Intel set its internal goals for what its calling Westmere 6C, the company aimed to boost both core and cache count by 50 percent without increasing the processor's thermal envelope. Westmere 6C (codename Gulftown) is a native six-core chip. Intel has crammed 1.17 billion transistors into a die that's approximately 240mm sq. The new chip carries 12MB up L3 (up from Nehalem's 8MB) and a TDP of 130W at 3.33GHz. In addition, Intel has built in AES encryption instruction decode support as well as a number of improvements to Gulftown's power consumption, especially in idle sleep states."
Re:Are most programmes multi-processor? (Score:5, Funny)
Cores are like girls in 'hot sluts gone wild' scenes - after a certain point you might hardly notice if there's even more of them, but you'd never say "no" to an increase.
Re:Are most programmes multi-processor? (Score:5, Funny)
Cores are like girls in 'hot sluts gone wild' scenes - after a certain point you might hardly notice if there's even more of them, but you'd never say "no" to an increase.
But my "operating system" can only deal with one hand- I mean core- at once!
the best fucking CPU that ever existed (Score:3, Funny)
Just so you know, I made this joke almost two years ago:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=465898&cid=22548916 [slashdot.org]
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] [theonion.com]
/I'm just waiting for the day Intel says "this one goes to 11"
It's the CPU joke that will never die.
Re:first (Score:2, Funny)
first
looks like you need more cores
Re:Are most programmes multi-processor? (Score:5, Funny)
If you left for work, would it have really made any difference to you if it took five times as long?
Well, yeah. I wouldn't have been able to brag about it ;-)