New Intel Nehalem processors coming soon
Nehalem is no longer just a small town in Oregon (Zip code 97131). Alas, processor giant Intel have started to leak out information regarding its latest chip architecture. What’s more, according to sources friendly with DigiTimes, we should expect to see it land sometimes before the year is out.
So what does this mean to the average consumer? Well, we will bare witness to the death of the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 and 6800, which was still produced on older technology, but experience the birth of three new processors called the XE, P1 and MS3 (codenames). All three will casually make use of their 8mb L3 cache and will be capable of Simultaneous Multi-Threading.
Simultaneous Multi-Threading, which will no doubt slip to a mere SMT, is the newer version of the old Hyper-Threading technology which was prevalent in Pentium 4 chips. Processing jobs created by your operating system of choice (e.g. Windows) are broken into ‘threads’. These threads can then be sent, simultaneously, to the same core on the new the XE, P1 and MS3 processors for concurrent execution. So, in short, it will speed things up! Now that can’t be a bad thing.
[Via DigiTimes]
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