The Japanese website PC Watch was invited to a technology presentation delivered by Intel about its Nehalem CPU. Beside the information already published and already commented regarding the Xeon Nehalem powering the new Mac Pro, Intel unveiled some additional details.
By the end of the year, the engraving process for the Xeon will move to 32 nm and it should decrease power consumption and/or allow the founder to offer model with higher clock-speed. It will also allow Intel to launch 6 core Xeon, currently known as Westmere. The cache will move from 8 GB today to 12 GB. The socket and motherboard should remain identical to the current one, and should give Apple the opportunity to upgrade its Mac Pro models before 2010.
Some information have bee released concerning the Xeon EX, expected to be launched for Q3 2010:
This processor will be Intel's flagship for this class of processor, with 8 physical cores, 15 logical cores, 24 MB of cache, 4 PQI links, 4 memory channel... It will however required a dramatically different architecture, and might open a new class of product, definitely targeting higher-end hardware than the current Xeon and its associated hardware models. towards a super workstation category? Will Apple follow with a super Mac Pro?
