Intel demonstrates server 16 processors

At a press conference held in the United States, Intel demonstrated the server system using its four Tigerton "quad-core" chips, bringing the total to "16 cores" independently processed in one system. system.

Intel hopes to launch the Tigerton chip, part of the Xeon MP series, in the third quarter of 2007. The chip is the first of the MP series to use the Intel Core processor architecture instead of the previous Netburst structure. Intel Core will help bring higher performance and greater power savings.

Currently, Intel has begun migrating to the Core platform for desktop, laptop and "dual-core" products. However, the company still sells multi-processor server products based on the Netburst platform.

Meanwhile, Tigerton-based servers will use Clarksboro chipsets, eliminating the independent "dual" bus architecture used for current Tulsa server streams, and replacing them with links. dedicated between each "quad core" chip and chipset.

Intel's current design for a four-processor server product only allows two processors to share a link to the chipset. This causes a "bottleneck" situation, and gives competitive access in limited connectivity.

Intel hopes to ship more than a million "quad-core" processors in mid-2007. These processors will include Kentsfield "quad-core" chips - for high-end desktops, and Clovertown - for server 4. processor. Both Kentsfield and Clovertown will be launched in November.