Boston, MA 12/23/2013 (wallstreetpr) – Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is working on the manufacture of an 18-core Broadwell chip, according to the reports. Till now, this is the highest core count on any chip. The company had already announced that the Broadwell microprocessors on which it is working will be more powerful and efficient compared to Haswell chips. The computers would become faster, lighter and sleeker by the usage of these chips. The battery life of laptops would also be enhanced by the help of a Broadwell chip. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) said that the development plans of Broadwell chips have delayed by almost a quarter.
When?
The 18-core Broadwell-EP will be based on 14nm production process of Intel Corporation. According to the report by Vr-zone, the company is focussing on increasing the number of cores on each of the chip die instead of speeding up the cores. However, until 2015, the 18-core chip is not likely to hit the market. For high-performance laptops and desktops, the company is also working on 8 and 10-core processors. The highest core count in the processors of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) today, is 12. The 18-core silicon is likely to have a top level cache of 45MB. The dual socket Broadwell EP system, according to Vr-zone, can support even 2TM DDR4 memory.
Focus on tablet market
There will be many improvements in the Broadwell Xeon processors, which will help in increasing the overall reliability and dependability of HPC operations, virtualized data-center and big data. Virtualization features will be boosted by page modification logging, the addition of posted interrupts, memory bandwidth monitoring and cache quality. It will also help in the management of certain things by enabling software and system debug by the execution of instructions. CPU World, on the other hand, reported that Broadwell chips of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) may come with thermal envelopes of 4.5 watts only. This way Broadwell would be preferred choice for tablets.
