Infoworld published this preview of the much anticipated Dunnington processor:

“Intel plans to launch its six-core Xeon server processor next month, with the extra cores and a larger cache giving the chip a performance advantage over the company’s existing quad-core chips.

Code-named Dunnington, the six-core Xeon processor is designed for servers that have four or more processors. Manufactured using a 45-nanometer production process, the chip should be the last new model based on Intel’s Penryn processor design before the release of the company’s first Nehalem chips in a few months’ time.”

Read the entire article here http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/21/More_cores_bigger_cache_give_boost_to_Dunnington_1.html

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