Intel previews Nehalem-EX Octal-Core Processor Architecture

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/27/2009 10:05 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Intel is on a marketing spree today as they held a press conference in which the company spoke about its next-generation server processor, currently code-named Nehalem-EX. As its name suggests, the Nehalem-EX is based on the Nehalem microarchitecture which debuted with Xeon 5500 and Core i7 series processors.

The Nehalem-EX series however, will be decidedly more high-end in terms of specifications and performance. Whereas current Xeon 5500 series processors feature four execution cores per CPU with support for up to eight threads through Intel

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