Intel Dunnington Overview

Just in case you have not been reading, Cebit is going to be open its doors next week. What is most interesting about Cebit is that Intel is most probably going to launch their attack on AMD. It has been a long time since we have seen such competition at such magnitude. Look at AMD for instance, they have only started shipping their Phenom True Quad Core (as compare to Intel's Quad Core which is masically two Duo core stapled together.

However, I wonder why is AMD's processor cannot come up to the standard of beating Intel. AMD was the very first company to launch their true duo cores (AMD X2 processors) and they were the very first to launch true 64 bit chips (AMD X64) back in the days. Now, the situation is very different. They were really lucky in the sense that Intel had their bad days (Pentium 4 with Netbust [ socket 472 and 478 days]). It is a different story right now. I think with the delay in shipping their CPU does affect consumer needs. I have got to say something over here. AMD CPUs are way much cheaper than Intel. That is the plus point for many people.

Intel, on the other hand, is laughing away. They have been quite successful since they came out with Intel Core Processors about two years ago. With Core 2 Duo processors, they are most probably going to launch Dunnington processors next week. We have seen enough of quad cores now days. It is understandable that you can have quad cores and now we have hex cores. Yes, six cores in a CPU on the Dunnington processors. Well, you might never know that with the launch of Dunnington, you can have up to 12 cores in a CPU (if you take into account of stapling two hex cores together just like the 8 cores system launched by Intel not so long ago (Skulltrail system).

It will be really exiting for the release of Dunnington processor. It meant to have 3 MB per core for its L2 cache and 16MB shared L3! That is pretty impressive considering that the FSB will be running at 1066MT/s. That is impressive man. It is supposed to be using a 45nm fabrication and will be using 40-bit physical address. Excellent job at Intel!!!