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Intel Demos 2GHz Quad-Core Server Chips

X-Bit labs is reporting that Intel has shown off a quad-core server processor code-named Clovertown. This is the company?s first microprocessor to feature four execution engines, or cores. The chip is designed for dual-socket servers and it is known that it is produced using 65nm process technology. Running 2GHz the processor was said to score 1723 in Cinebench while a single core 2GHz processor scored 362.

The prototype of the code-named Clovertown server processor utilizes two physical dice on a substrate, each of the units sport two processing engines and 4MB of unified cache, thus providing four executing cores and 8MB of cache in total. Intel Corp. has already demonstrated the new product in an attempt to show off its technological excellence. However, the company did not reveal any peculiarities of the Clovertown?s design earlier. The sample of the quad-core server chip Intel demonstrated at IDF Taipei worked at 2.0GHz.

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Posted by | Mon, Apr 17, 2006 - 07:37 AM