A chip off the Bangalore block

A chip off the Bangalore block
DH News Service, Bangalore:
The engineers, working at global chip giant Intel India's development centre in Bangalore, have added another feather to their cap...


Intel on Tuesday announced the launch of its 45 nanometer six-core Xeon processor 7400 series, which was conceptualised and developed at its India development centre here. Code named Dunnington, it is Intel’s first six core CPU, with 16MB of shared cache memory, 1.9 billion transistors. The Intel India team planned and executed end-to-end design activities including front-end design, pre-silicon logic validation and the back-end design for Dunnington which completes the transition of the entire Intel Xeon family to Intel’s 45nm Hi-k manufacturing process.

Speaking at the launch, Intel India President Praveen Vishakantaiah said: “The new processors, developed completely by Indian team, have made a distinguished mark on global silicon design map. The Indian team released the product in record time of two years, two months ahead of the schedule.”“This new processor series helps IT manage increasingly complex enterprise server environments, providing an opportunity to boost the scalable performance of multi-threaded applications with in a stable platform infrastructure,” said Intel South Asia Director Sales R Ravichandran. The Xeon server processor, on which a host of applications can be built for virtualised environments and data-demanding workloads, enhances performance by 50 per cent, consuming much less power than its earlier versions.

Benefits of multi-core chips include vertical scalability, cloud computing, HiPC, greener computing and Server consolidation, Vishakantaiah said. Servers based on new Xeon 7400 chips are expected to be announced by more than 50 system manufacturers including four-socket rack servers from Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Sun, Unisys and Fujitsu, according to Intel. The pricing for the Xeon 7000 sequence processors in quantities of 1000 ranges from $856 to $2,729, Intel said.