Fall IDF 2005 - Day 2: Pat Gelsinger Reveals Intel's Server Plans

Next Generation Microarchitecture

Pat was kind enough to reveal some more details about Conroe and Woodcrest during his keynote.

There will be two Conroe (desktop) offerings, one with a shared 2MB L2 cache and one with a shared 4MB L2 cache.

Woodcrest, the next-generation server CPU, will feature a 4MB shared L2 cache. Its successor, Whitefield, will feature 4 cores and a 16MB shared L2 cache.

Pat also talked about the improvements in performance per watt, sharing with us the slide below that compared rack-level performance per watt:

Sossamn: Yonah in Servers

Being all about Enterprise, Pat talked about Sossaman - an Intel Xeon processor based on the 65nm Yonah core.

Sossaman will be made available at two separate power envelopes: 15W and 30W, both of which are extremely low for what will essentially be a high performance dual core server.

Intel will be making Sossaman available in 1U racks as well as other small form factor enterprise offerings.