Intel puts flesh on Larrabee, Nehalem and Dunnington

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Death to the front side bus! And six cores for Dunnington

CHIP FIRM Intel gave details of its Nehalem, Larrabee and Dunnington in a set of briefings to hacks in a conference call today. But the firm remains coy about Larrabee, the great threat to Nvidia and to Dammit, for crying out loud.

Stephen Smith, VP of Digital Enterprise, and Ronak Singhal, principal engineer of the same group, presided over the calls.

Nehalem will ship this year, in the fourth quarter, said Smith, and be a scaleable architecture supporting between two to eight cores, with simultaneous multithreading providing 4 to 16 capabilities. He said: "This is the most scaleale design Intel has created."


Intel puts flesh on Larrabee, Nehalem and Dunnington - The INQUIRER

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Some good stuff here for intel.

[CPU Slayer]

Intel says goodbye to FSB. So if I am trying to understand Intel, I would think they are saying goodbye to overclocking? Or do they mean a higher FSB doesn't have as much of an advantage with these new chips?

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Originally Posted by CPU Slayer

Intel says goodbye to FSB. So if I am trying to understand Intel, I would think they are saying goodbye to overclocking? Or do they mean a higher FSB doesn't have as much of an advantage with these new chips?

The FSB is a relic, it holds performance back.

You can still bump the CPU frequency and memory frequency with QuickPath. Overclocking will be more like what you do with AMD chips.