Intel renames next-gen dual-core chips "Core 2 Duo," unveils quad-core Tukwila

Intel's been busy in the realm of multi-core processors lately, first unveiling their quad-core replacement for the Itanium Montecito, named Tukwila, and today -- taking a page out of MC "2 Legit 2 Quit" Hammer's book -- renaming the next-gen mobile Merom and desktop Conroe dual-core chips "Core 2 Duo." What's more, the company announced that another version of the processor will be released for performance junkies, called, not surprisingly, "Core 2 Extreme." As for Tukwila, the deets on this server-targeted chip came to light thanks thanks to a little digging by Real World Technologies, who found a set of slides that Intel recently presented on the topic at a conference in Asia. According to RWT, Tukwila will run at an estimated 40 gigaflops, sport 6MB of L3 cache for each core, and feature other additions that IT-types will likely be into, including an on-die FB-DIMM memory controller and Common Systems Interconnect (CSI) router. First called "Tanglewood" and scheduled for a 2007 rollout, Tukwila will now be released in 2008 and go head-to-head with other enterprise offerings from Intel and Sun, probably making it an exciting year for those aforementioned IT-types.

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[Benson Leung @ May 7th 2006 7:34PM]

Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue... Core-two-duo... uhm ok.

A rose by any other name...

[TC @ May 7th 2006 7:39PM]

Isn't it 4x 6Mb of Level 2 cache and not Level 3?

[John Hinds @ May 7th 2006 7:42PM]

Wow, I thought Wii was bad but "Core 2 Duo"? WTF???

[elliot @ May 7th 2006 7:42PM]

Anyone from Seattle knows that the funnier part of this naming scheme is to name a chip "Tukwila." Southcenter represent, what.

[Russell Kinsella @ May 7th 2006 7:47PM]

why not core duo duo?

[hokka @ May 7th 2006 7:49PM]

Why not just call it "Core Duo Duo" - it's already a retard name, at least it rolls off like a starterer having a fit

[Santiago @ May 7th 2006 7:52PM]

Mad respect to Intel for representing the Seattle suburbs. Tukwila woot woot

[LongshotX @ May 7th 2006 8:14PM]

Inserting sarcasm...in T-5,4,3,2,1.....


It's not more powerful than the PS3's Cell Technology which has the ability to destroy planets at 4.6 GHZ. And shoot Killer Blu-Rays at speeds faster than light.

[LongshotX @ May 7th 2006 8:16PM]

Why not call it the Intel Compton. Now that's representing.

[Henry @ May 7th 2006 8:20PM]

What's next? Bothel? Puyallup?

[Stu L Tissimus @ May 7th 2006 8:33PM]

Okay, Intel. Get this. It'll blow your marketing department out of the water.

Hexium.

Pentium was named Pentium because it was based on the i586 architecture (the five = "pent~"). And for some reason Intel didn't change it when they went to i686. But now, since intel wants so badly to get rid of the Pentium moniker, I propose Hexium. Even "Septium," if they decide that Conroe/Merom are worthy of a new architecture name.

[Brewer @ May 7th 2006 8:57PM]

I agree, tukwila is the funniest name i've ever heard. For non Washingtonians, Tukwila is a crappy town too far away from downtown Seattle, where houses are really cheap.

[Ed Jucker @ May 7th 2006 9:03PM]

I believe it's actually named after Len Tukwila, the famed driftwood sculptor: "First I sand the wood until it is smooth, then I oil it until it is dark. It's usually a bird or a whale or a knotted, twisty shape." And then he adds googly eyes.

[John Stracke @ May 7th 2006 9:13PM]

"Hexium" is a non-starter because "hex" will make the fundies scream about devil worship. The alternative term, of course, would be "Sexium", but that's not much better. :-)

[Yandel @ May 7th 2006 9:18PM]

This already is making the Intel Core Duo sound like old tecnology.

[Jacob @ May 7th 2006 9:57PM]

@4

Haha! I used to live in Tukwila, crappiest town evar!!!

[AK Mac @ May 7th 2006 10:17PM]

Inline with the Washington Subs; I guess the Conroe chip has been missplelled this whole time..it was supposed to be the Monroe.....

[AK Mac @ May 7th 2006 10:18PM]

So any idea on how soon are these going to show up in the iMac's??? Mac Desktops?

[steve @ May 7th 2006 10:52PM]

ooo with a core 2 duo processor i could play a top of the line game smoothly
and
while burning a cd
and
listening to music
and
do some other stuff
all at the same time!
lol

[Mike @ May 7th 2006 11:33PM]

TC, it says L3, and then below L2.. hm

[aidee @ May 8th 2006 2:20AM]

Mad props to my homies in downtown Adelaide...

"2 legit, 2 legit to quit"...

[Diane Ensey @ May 9th 2006 7:47PM]

Wow, with such great places like Dosewallips, Tulalip, Sequim (pronounced Skwim), they chose Tukwila? Or if they really needed a pit to name something after - Federal Way (yup, lived there for 5 years).