Xeon 7400 is Intel's first chip made in India
17 Sep 2008
Bangalore: Intel has unveiled the Xeon 7400 series processor, its latest microprocessor for servers, the company announced yesterday. The processor has been designed completely and developed in a record time of two years by a team of 300 engineers by Intel's research and development centre at Bangalore in India.
Intel experts say that the new processor would allow reduction in power consumption while substantially increasing performance.
According to the company, the Bangalore team became the first Intel centre to design a 45 nanometre technology outside its US home base.
The The 45-nanometer Xeon 7400s micro processor is reportedly the first six core processor in the world, and is Intel's first indigenously designed chip, which can scale up to 16 processor sockets, in effect, 96 cores.
Based on Intel's x86 architecture, each CPU supports up to 256GB of system memory. The 7400 is socket-compatible with the Xeon 7300, but is 50 per cent faster, according to Intel.
The Xeon 7400 series is priced between $856 (Rs39,279) and $2729 (about Rs1.09 lakh), the company said
