eight-core

Intel: Screw Everything, We're Doing Eight Cores

John Paczkowski in News on September 5, 2008 at 5:41 am PT

If two cores make a good chip and four cores make a better one, then, obviously, six cores make the best damn chip on the market. Which is what analysts believe Intel’s new six-core Xeon processor X7460 will be when it debuts Sept. 15. With six cores and a leviathan 16MB L3 cache, it’s easy to see why.

Intel: Screw Everything, We’re Doing Eight Cores

John Paczkowski in News on September 5, 2008 at 5:41 am PT

If two cores make a good chip and four cores make a better one, then, obviously, six cores make the best damn chip on the market. Which is what analysts believe Intel’s new six-core Xeon processor X7460 will be when it debuts Sept. 15. With six cores and a leviathan 16MB L3 cache, it’s easy to see why.