Items tagged with Beckton

by Joel Hruska - Wed, Nov 17, 2010

Intel Will Discuss New Itanium Architecture at ISSCC

The topics list for the 2011 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) has been unveiled and there's a surprise inside. In addition to discussing its more prominent architectures, Intel will present data on its upcoming 32nm Itanium processor, codenamed Poulson. The new architecture doubles the number of instructions an Itanium... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Mar 30, 2010

Intel Unveils Nehalem-EX 8-Core Xeon 7500 Muscle Chip

Intel launched its much-anticipated Nehalem-EX processor today; the new chip could redefine performance at 4P and above. Nehalem-EX, aka Beckton, aka Xeon 6500/7500 is Nehalem at full throttle; Beckton is an eight-core/16-thread processor with up to 24MB of L3 cache or ~3MB per core compared to Nehalem's 2MB/core design. It supports up to... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Mon, Mar 29, 2010

AMD's Takes The Fight To Intel With Renewed Server Offensive

AMD launched its new Maranello server platform and accompanying 8-12 core Magny-Cours processors today. The new products are two prongs of a three-pronged offensive AMD has launched at its rival. Both Magny-Cours and Maranello are evolutionary products—we'll have to wait for Bulldozer to really shake things up—but the... Read more...