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400 Indian brains behind Intel's six core processor
By Shoukath Koduvally
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 16:56 IST
Bangalore: 400 engineers in world's largest chip maker Intel's center in Bangalore developed Intel Xeon 7400 series processor named as Dunnington, which is Intel's first six core microprocessor.
The Xeon 7400 series is the first chip credited to come out of Intel's Bangalore design center. The chip was also tested by Intel's Bangalore laboratory to ensure that it is compatible with most of the existing and forthcoming software. Priced at $850, the new chip will hit the market in a few days.
With up to six processing cores per chip and 16 MB of shared cache memory, applications built for virtualized environments and data demanding workloads, such as data bases, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and server consolidation, experience a performance increase of almost 50 percent in some cases.
"This new processor helps IT manage increasingly complex enterprise server environments, providing great opportunity to boost the scalable performance of multi-threaded applications within a stable platform infrastructure," said R Ravichandran, Director, Sales, Intel South India.
Praveen Vishakantaiah, the Chief Architect of Dunnington said, "Bangalore design center is the first Intel team outside the U.S. to complete the design of a 45-nanometer processor."
Though newly designed processor is supposed to target mostly to global market, Intel has also plans to enter the Indian market as well. The Xeon 7400 series processor is expected to be useful for various enterprises such as retail, financial, telecom, Banking and insurance.
