At the Solid-State circuits Conference, Intel plans to detail an eight-core Xeon processor. The conference will be held next month. There one can have a look on the chip, which is said to be the first eight-core processor from the company.

At present any details are declined from Intel. The details are said to be revealed at the conference on 9th February.

The only information given in this regard is that eight-core 16-thread processor manufactured with a 45-nanometer process will be discussed by Intel executives.

Nick Jacobs, a company spokesman in Singapore said, “We are presenting 16 papers at ISSCC, but don’t have anything further to share at this point.”

Speculations are there about the upcoming eight-core Xeon processor that it might be a Nehalem EP processor. Nehalem is a chip that is soon coming. It is designed for workstations and dual socket servers.

This portion of the Xeon line requires a change, and to serve the purpose Nehalem is there. The release of Nehalem is time framed within the first quarter of 2009

Like the rest of the Nehalem chips, Nehalem EP will be coming with combined memory control and a QPI. QPI is Quick Path Interconnect which is used to replace the front bus. This allows more data flow in between the computer components and processor, eventually speeding up the computer performance.

It is a good practical effort on Intel’s part to get ahead of others. Intel has previously been doing the same, wining over the market time and again.

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