[Rumor] Octo-core Beckton soon

Robert Hallock (Thrax)

May 20, 2009 10:02 AM ET in News, , , , , , , , ,

intelCompute density, renderer and encoding nerds may have a reason to work themselves into a frenzy next week as Intel may be announcing the arrival of the Beckton core as early as May 26.

Previously discussed here and here, the Beckton is an octo-core member of the Nehalem family destined for work in servers and high-end workstations. Rumored to feature 24MB of L3 cache, a 45nm process node, FB-DIMM support and four QPI lanes, it seems Beckton is being positioned as the heir to Dunnington’s throne.

4 Comments:

  1. first the Octo-mom, then Octo-core. what next?!

  2. octodick
  3. The Octo-core looks pretty sweat and all but dang, its going to be pricey.

    Technology is moving so fast these days. I bet you in less then 6 months something else will come up and beat the Octo-core.

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