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Intel's Nehalem-EX will be out next month
CHIPMAKER Intel will release its Nehalem-EX processors next month, as it might need to do to keep ahead of AMD in the x86 server market.
The eight-core Nehalem-EX is an x86 processor design but lays in features found in Chipzilla's higher end Itanium chips.
Intel has managed to take over much of the server market from RISC-based and mainframe processors with its x86 chips. According to IDC, x86 machines now account for more than 90 per cent of server shipments.
But the relatively few RISC servers still sold are high end and jolly expensive, and Chipzilla has its eye on that segment of the server market.
So far Intel has competed in that segment with its Itanium processors, including the just released four-core Itanium 9300. However it's apparently hoping that Nehalem-EX processors can start to compete there too.
Intel has not said how fast its Nehalem-EX processors will be. The specifications it has released so far are that it has 24MB of unifying L3 cache and 2.3 billion transistors.
The Nehalem-EX line will sit between Intel's Xeon 5500 line of Westmere processors, used in two-socket system designs, and the Itanium chips, which are used at the high end. Nehalem-EX processors will be sold under the Xeon brand name and will replace the 7400 family of processors.
According to Hardwarecentral, the Nehalem-EX chips have design features half-inched from the Itanium. These include reliability, availability and serviceability features such as machine check architecture and recovery error correction, which are designed to keep processors running in the event of failure. The processor can spot system errors originating in the CPU or system memory and correct them.
The Nehalem-EX chips are rumoured to use a much larger socket design, Socket 1567, but Intel has not confirmed this yet. They will also have four memory channels per processor, which is an increase from the three in current Xeons and the same as AMD's new Magny-Cours processors.
IBM has indicated that it plans to use Nehalem-EX processors in its eX5 series of System x servers. µ
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AMD was, is and will be the SMARTER & BETTER CHIOCE. Remember how AMD made it possible to upgrade the same server from classical K8 based Opteron to Phenom based and then to Phenom II based. And now they cand even use HEXA CORES Opteron in the same servers. Who else is able to give something like that? How takes care of its customers like that? Believe me ... Intel has its interests and will ALWAYS overcharge and force you to aquire a new platform. I sure hope Intel fans learnt their lesson with FB-DIMMs and Pentium 4 based Xeons... and man they were so expensive.
Sorry maddoctor, there are smart people too in this world and that is how AMD is sustaining. AMD do make the best products in the world and they might not have smart marketing people, but they do have smart designers.
Bulldozzer will rock in future...
What is AMD? Even, it is a no-brainer, AMD products are always craps. No one will buy AMD Magnycours. I hope that Intel's smarter marketing people will prevent its customer to buy AMD's products. Intel will convince many Fortune 500 companies to buy Intel Beckton or Gulftown and will not let them to buy any AMD products.