Intel six core Xeon 7400 Dunnington processor launch soon

Intel plans to launch its six-core Xeon 7400 Dunnington processors on September 15, 2008. The six-core Xeon 7400 chip is Intel’s first effort to fuse multiple cores on one piece of silicon, and go beyond four cores.

The Intel 6-core Xeon 7400 processor is expected to be more efficient and reduce current leakage.

The Intel Xeon 7400 has 16MB cache memory that will help increase increase performance levels. The Intel Xeon 7400 Dunnington chip will be built with Intel’s new 45nm Penryn technology.

The Intel 6-core chip will help improve the management of virtual and physical systems. Analysts say that the new Intel-based virtualization server systems will provide power in a smaller, energy-efficient system.

Intel’s 6-core Xeon 7400 is aimed at applications that use multithreaded environments and virtualization.  The 6-core Xeon 7400 will not only be able to manage large workloads, because multiple virtual machines can be consolidated on one physical server, but will aso be more power efficient and use less space in a data center.

Three Intel Xeon 7400 models will be revealed at the time of launch – Xeon X7460 (with a maximum core speed of 2.67GHz), E7450 and the low-wattage L7455.

The Intel six-core Xeon 7400 will be compatible with the chip sets used with Intel’s Xeon processor multiprocessor systems.

Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture, which is expected to go into production at the end of 2008 will have eight cores.

Recently, Intel launched three new quad-core Xeon processors, the Xeon L5430, the X5470 and the X5492. Intel also launched the X5270, a dual-core Xeon chip.

Vendors like Sun Microsystems, HP, Dell, IBM, and Unisys have already announced Xeon 7400 Dunnington servers.