Intel shows off working 3.2GHz Nehalem processors at IDF
By Nilay Patel 
posted April 2nd 2008 1:01PM
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It's a quad with a new version of SMT/HT.
The e8000 series is available but Intel's current 45nm ramp can't support demand and right now the top tier PC vendors are getting first grabs at them. E-tailers are getting shipment just not enough. The q9000 series was delayed but it is also shipping but again supply isn't coming close to demand, that's why you're seeing a price premium. Over the next few months 45nm production will increase and eventually the market will be saturated and you should be able to get a q9450 for around $300 or less.
Our software today can't properly utilize dual let alone quad cores.
How about focusing on the bus and other bottlenecks until it catches up?
then you aren't using the right software. not everyone spends all day playing games. some of us actually have the software that can play well with multi-core cpus.
@Mike
Uh, they did address other bottlenecks. No more FSB and integrated memory controller. For lack of a better description, Intel has gone K7 with hyperthreading.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/intels-6-core-dunnington-coming-in-2008-nehalem-official/
yes, there are not many program languages that make multi threading easy.
Intel can't do much about DDR speeds/prices or bus speeds or HDD speeds. They are moving to QuickPath over 2008/2009, but the FSB hasn't been a bottleneck in single/dual CPU machines.
To some degree, adding SMT will help with these bottlenecks - running two threads on one processor will make it easier to fill more execution units.
That is why they have Maya loaded up in the background, Maya will use have all of the local cores your have a license for =D Same with most other 3d, visualization and simulation apps.
The really important stuff like GCC can utilize multiple cores. Imagine the the bliss of compiling hundreds of kilobytes of code in the blink of an eye...
haha hence why they are using Maya to test it out, great choice btw.
Newegg had the e8400's in stock early Thursday. I know because I just put together the new machine last night with one. The unfortunate part was where every part but the processor got delivered Friday; the chip came yesterday.
^--- See that ladies and gentlemen?
In stock Thursday, and put into the system by Monday.
God I love Newegg.
And in other news, Lowest Ranked continues to contradict his own name.
Nehalem is a town on the Oregon Coast.
According to Wikipedia, Nehalem is either named after the town or river in Oregon (which is relatively near an Intel site) or a hebrew reference from the Intel Haifa branch.
Nehalem was originally a P4 processor codename, but it never came out, and so the codename was recycled.
Yep, Its a Town, River, and the name of the Bay it outlets into.
Other processors have been named for Oregon sites (Tualitan) so I figured there could be a connection there as well.
Other Intel processors have been named after Hebrew references/names - for example, the Yonah processor. Intel has a huge presence over here.
It's also a decent Everclear song from before they got all touchy-feely and stopped doing drugs.
It's a slow and meandering river.
"There is this rumor about, they say you're leaving Nehalem" - Everclear
As an Oregonian, I can tell you that Nehalem is a city here. They use a lot of code names relating to Oregon because we do a lot of design and manufacturing here. In fact, they're our largest employer. I live right next to one of the manufacturing facilities.
wonder why intel is still using XP to show off their new processors....can i get a vista sucks, anyone?
no.
well, if youre a believer in the fact that people who hate vista only hate it cause their system is too crappy too run it, then why did they use XP instead of the "greatest operating system to date?"
wait a minute...this is a quad core.... Is this a quad dual core? as in 8 cores? like 8 processors running at one time? because Ill pee on myself if it is....
Wow, I really like how you just turned 8 cores into 8 processors.
Thats almost as good as water into wine.
well that screenshot listed 8 in the device manager....
No it's just a Quad Core, but with Hyper-threading.
"Initial desktop-oriented models, dubbed Bloomfield, will feature four execution cores with, obviously, eight-thread capability."
I hope you're trying to be funny... otherwise, RTFA next time!
What matters is the price.
Any idea what these will cost?
But..... Will it Blend??!!
I WANT!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday
Core2(3)? (core2 cubed)
@Loony2nz
Core2 Quad HT
Take the existing Core2 Quad badge and stick the little orange HT on it like the old P4 days. Though I'm sure Intel won't do anything simple like that. They will come up with some new horribly convoluted means to name the new chips.
hey do you guys think I should upgrade my laptop? Right now my processor is Core 2 T7200 @2GHz
hahahahaha, anyone else notice that they put it in an xp machine?
I particularly like the name. The Nehalem were a supposed ancient 'heavenly' race that gave higher levels of knowledge and technology to ancient man. It is spoke of in the ancient writings of Enoch. I think it peculiar that they would name it this...hmmm...who, again was the designer of this chip!?! Pretty twilight zone-ish!
Crap. When the C2D processor's first beat AMD, we said AMD was behind.
When AMD came out with whimpy quad cores, we said AMD was lagging.
When Intel launched 45nm, we said AMD was slowly beginning to die.
When AMD came out with revised yet still whimpy quads last month, we said they were iffy.
Now what? Intel has WORKING 45nm, hyper threaded 4 cores (apparently native 4 core) processors with an octo-core one the fab, and projected increases in performance up to 1.2 times the power in single thread and 2x the power in dual threaded applications. Imagine the power in the few quad threaded apps? Or the many, by the time 09 hits.
AMD, skip any more work on your 45nm chips. You need to go straight to 32nm (which is what Intel's Westmere chip will debut with in 09). Don't even head to fab with your 45nm, other than research samples to learn how to shrink to 32nm or beyond and maintain higher transistor counts.
woooooooowww!...... that's a lot of CORES!!!!
It's the name of a bay on the Oregon Coast.