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Wednesday Intel took the wraps off the next iteration of its Xeon server line, the Nehalem EX, which will debut in the second half of this year. Nehalem EX has up to 8 cores, which gives a total of 16 threads per socket (with hyperthreading). That’s a lot of threads in one socket, so it’s good that Intel outfitted the chip with plenty of I/O and memory bandwidth in the form of four QPI links and two integrated memory controllers. Also helping to keep the cores fed is a 24MB cache.
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