Six-core Intel processors coming this year!

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soumya

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Intel announced Monday that it expects to ship a six-core processor to OEMs in the second half of this year. With 1.9 billion transistors and 16MB of L3 cache, the six-core chip, code-named Dunnington, will be built with Intel's new 45 nanometer (nm) technology, according to Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise group. "The big cache and six cores will give customers a nice bump in performance," Gelsinger said during a press briefing today to talk about the company's product roadmap and its upcoming Intel Developer's Forum slated to be held next month in Shanghai.

This announcement comes after AMD confirmed that it has started shipping its triple-core Phenom processors just last week, and again pushes Intel well-ahead of its chief rival. However, it's not necessarily a terribly damaging development for AMD. According to Dan Olds, an analyst with the Gabriel Consulting Group, "for AMD, it just means that they're falling a little bit further behind...a six-core is a big deal, but most desktop software can't really take advantage of dual-core yet..."

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yes, I think at this rate, within 2 years octacore(8-core processor) will be launched.
I will directly jump to octacore rather than six core :D
lol crysis 2 will require 10 cores or what :D :D
 
MetalheadGautham

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there already octo and hexadeca(16) cores flooding the markets. This is a mindless core war. They should instead concentrate on upgradability, vfm and performance.
 
Zeeshan Quireshi

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MetalheadGautham said:
there already octo and hexadeca(16) cores flooding the markets. This is a mindless core war. They should instead concentrate on upgradability, vfm and performance.
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No it's not .

There actually are softwares that can take advantage of Quad-core and Octa-Core and software developers , multimedia creators definitely do take advantage of them .
 
PCWORM

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being a mid-range user,,My only area of interest is that the price of Quad-Cores will go down!
 
gxsaurav

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The general purpose applications are not even dual core optimised yet & they are relesing quado core. :rolleyes:

Core 2 Duo E8200 is my favorite. 2 cores are enough for home use & even workstation use if you know how to work properly. It supports SSE4.1, 45nm fabrication means low heat & temperature, more cache.....well, E8200 is a CPU anyone can use easily for next 4 years unless into gaming. Buy once & forget about anything else...

Although with Intel Neahlam core coming, it doesn't makes sense to upgrade to E8xxx series if u already got a dual core system
 
akshaykapoor_3

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Zeeshan Quireshi said:
No it's not .

There actually are softwares that can take advantage of Quad-core and Octa-Core and software developers , multimedia creators definitely do take advantage of them .
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whch sofwtares r u talking abt .. ??...m using Q6600 but as all knw, all d 4 cores r never used.. So i feel that my PC is kind of working in a limited mode ( i.e less than what it can actually perform ) :(
 
Faun

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^^nope am settled on 8 :)

Its useless to run for every new upgrade, make a discrete checkpoint and stick with it
 
gxsaurav

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Hmm....save some money guys.

A typical upgrade cycle should be of 4 years for non gaming computers. I upgrade my computer with every new release of Windows. So my next upgrade will be in 2011 when Windows 7 comes, till then dual core is enough for non-gaming CPU.

90% of the consumer level software out there are not optimized for dual core. Have a look, is MS word optimized for Dual core???? (it doesn't even need dual core). So why jump for multi-core CPU thinking of the future when u know that in future there might be something else tempting to buy.

I say stick to all the cores u have right now. For anything non-gaming or non-Pro use Quad Core is useless. The next major intel revision is nehalam core so upgrade to that if u like by March 2009 & stick to that new architecture till 2012 easily.

I myself won't be upgrading my computer for next 4 years. There is no need to upgrade...
 
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