Intel plans to launch 32-core processor in 2010, targeting Sun

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Sina Technology News, Beijing time, July 11, according to foreign media reports, Intel's plan five years ago was to launch a processor with a main frequency of 20GHz in 2010, but now the company has turned its efforts to increasing the core of the processor. According to Intel's latest plan, the company will launch a 32-core processor in 2010. Although the main frequency of each core is only two-thirds of the current fastest Xeon processor, the overall performance will reach 15 times that of the latter.
So far, Intel has launched a number of dual-core processors. But dual-core is only the first step of Intel's multi-core processor strategy, and it is far from the ultimate goal. In fact, Intel often uses the term "multi-core" rather than "dual-core" in the process of promoting products. According to Intel's latest product roadmap, the company's first "Keifer" (the name of Intel's multi-core processor project) processor will be launched in 2009/2010. It will have 32 cores and can handle 128 threads simultaneously.
The first "Keifer" processor will be manufactured using a 32-nanometer process and have eight processor nodes, each with 4 processor cores. Each node has 3MB of on-chip LLC cache, and 512KB of L2 cache, which means the processor will have a total of 24MB of LLC cache. It seems that Intel does not regard AMD's Opteron processor and subsequent products as competitors in 2010, but directly targets Sun's Niagara chip architecture.

　　Sun's Niagara chip architecture also uses a multi-core design. The Ultra Sparc T1 processor based on this architecture was launched last year. It has a clock frequency of 1.2Ghz, eight cores and 3MB of L2 cache, can process 32 threads simultaneously, and has a peak power consumption of only 72 watts. Currently, Sun has adopted the Ultra Sparc T1 processor in its T1000 and T2000 servers.

　　Sun expects Niagara II to be released in 2007, using 65-nanometer technology, with the same 8 cores, but with a clock frequency of 1.4 GHz, it can support 64 threads at the same time, and its performance is 2 to 3 times that of the current T1 chip. Niagara III is expected to be released in 2009, using 45-nanometer technology, with a clock frequency of 1.4 GHz to 2.0 GHz, it can handle 128 threads at the same time, and its performance is 4 to 6 times that of the current T1 processor. (Martin)

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