Intel introduced the first 6-core processor

Dunnington Xeon 7400 is also the final version of the Penryn line of the world's No. 1 computer chip maker before switching to the Nehalem / Core i7 microarchitecture in the fourth quarter of 2008.

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Xeon 7400 will bring high performance to the server with 16 MB cache. It is also Intel's first chip to incorporate, ie six cores are integrated on a single silicon piece (before that, the company simply assembled multiple pieces of silicon together to form multi-core chips - things making Intel constantly criticized by analysts.

Unisys (USA) will be the pioneer in introducing the 7400-based server system called ES7000 Model 7600R with 16 sockets, which contains a total of 96 cores.

Not only does it provide the ability to handle complex database applications, 6-core chips also help reduce the number of servers. "However, the Microsoft Windows operating system currently supports only a 64-core limited environment," said Colin Lacey, Unisys's Sales Manager, which will affect system configuration. "You have 96 cores, but you need to disable 2 cores in each socket. In other words, you can only use 4 cores in practice."

The ES7000 Model 7600R server is priced from 26,430 USD to 135,000 USD. Software vendors will also support platforms running on Xeon 7400, including Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP and VMware.

Dunnington Xeon sells for $ 856 - $ 2,729 (with 1,000 product orders) for 7 different versions of 4 to 6 people, including:

Watt Version (maximum) Number of cores Clock (GHz) L3 (MB) Price (USD) X746017062,66162.729E745012562,4122.301E744012542,4161,980E742012542,1381.177L74558562,13122.729L74456542,13121.980