Intel's server processor Poulson gets 54MB cache and 8 cores
 

Intel will invest 3.1 billion transistors in the latest server processor in the Poulson family. The processor giant presented the new Itanium grade server processor, code-named Poulson, at ISSCC as the biggest upgrade of Itanium ever. The specifications include 8 CPU cores and 54MB cache.

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