Intel’s new six core processor | Dunnington

Intel announced its first six core microprocessor named Dunnington at its bangalore center. Intel named it as Xeon 7400 series priced at $850. the new chip will hit the market in few days.

Dunnington built mainly for virtual environments and data demanding workloads, such as data bases, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and server consolidation. With up to six processing cores per chip and 16 MB of shared cache memory experience a performance increase of almost 50 percent in some cases.

"This new processor helps IT manage increasingly complex enterprise server environments, providing great opportunity to boost the scalable performance of multi-threaded applications within a stable platform infrastructure," said R Ravichandran, Director, Sales, Intel South India.

Praveen Vishakantaiah, the Chief Architect of Dunnington said, "Bangalore design center is the first Intel team outside the U.S. to complete the design of a 45-nanometer processor."