The WORLD's largest Chipmaker Intel Corporation on Tuesday unveiled its most powerful
SIX-CORE microprocessor designed and developed at its
India development centre.
The 45nm chip boasts of
1.9 BILLION transistors, six processing cores and
16MB of shared memory in the
XEON family.
The XEON Server Processor on which a host of applications can be built for Virtualised environments and data-demanding workloads such as databases, business intelligence and enterprise resource planning(ERP) enhances performance by 50PERCENT, consuming much LESS POWER than it's earlier versions-quad core and dual core processors.
"Platforms based in this enterprise chip can be scaled up to 16 PROCESSOR SOCKETS to deliver servers with 96 PROCESSING CORES inside, offering scalability, ample computing threads, extensive memory resources and reliability for enterprise data centers."
Prices of these XEONS will be anything between 856$ to 2,729$ !
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