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Images: Intel to build first six-core chip

March 18, 2008 10:31 AM PDT

Intel shows off its first six-core processor, called Dunnington, which will be available in the second half of 2008. Dunnington is based on the 45nm high-k process technology and is composed of 1.9 billion transistors. It contains a 16MB L3 cache, is socket compatible with the Caneland platform, and is made for virtualization.

Tom Krazit has more details of Intel's new chips and graphics processor.

Correction: This gallery initially misstated the number of transistors Dunnington is composed of. It's composed of 1.9 billion transistors.

Photo by Intel

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