Some more details on Nehalem. 16-threaded monster showcased

[HEXUS]

Intel's Nehalem CPU architecture is due for debut in 2008. Now we know just a little bit more about it.

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[James Thorburn]

A quad-core Nehalem packs in around 731M transistors, we found out, so we wonder at the count of the full-fat eight-core model. The architecture will be roped in to the server, desktop, and mobile market, in various configurations, as per recent multi-platform-wide strategy.

Sounds to me like it would be an MCM, similar to Clovertown is now.

Hang a second die off an on package CSI link, get access to memory and other sockets through the first die (with a bit of a latency penalty).

[JumpingJack]

Sounds to me like it would be an MCM, similar to Clovertown is now.

Hang a second die off an on package CSI link, get access to memory and other sockets through the first die (with a bit of a latency penalty).

Well, all the information out of IDF is that Nehalem in this incarnation, is a monolithic quad core... if you check around other sites, the diagram for this demo was a dual socket, hence 8 total cores. Since each core can crunch 2 threads, this gives a total count of 16, 8 physical cores and 8 logical cores (2 SMT recongized cores per physical core), so 16....

In essense it is a CSI link ... between two sockets, just like AMD's cHT link between two sockets...