Six-core Intel processors coming this year

Intel will move to a processor design that utilizes scalable cores, from two all the way to eight using another new microarchitecture, and it will phase out the front-side bus as a component of its architecture. The six-core Dunnington server CPU platform using Penryn architecture, with 16 Mb of L3 cache, goes into production as soon as this summer

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