16 September 2008 17:30 GMT / By Katie Scott
This is the monster of all chips - the Intel six-core Xeon 7400 processor.Joining the chip series, that was codenamed "Dunnington", this is expected to be the last of the Penryn family as Intel is soon to move over to a new chip tech, or processor architecture, called Nehalem.
A four-quad-core chip was already available, but this latest chip is basically made up of three dual-core Penryn processors packed onto a single processor die.
Intel has used what it calls a 45-nanometer (as opposed to a 65-nanometer) process to make the new chip, which means that the features on a chip are smaller and it uses less power.
What this means for the consumer is faster machines.
The 7400 series processors has added a 16MB level 3 cache, which means performance is boosted, especially for memory hungry applications. Hardware, Chipsets, Intel
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