If the most powerful supercomputer in the world, the Jaguar Cray uses AMD processors now Istanbul, Intel does not account surely leave its eternal rival the first place. The depth and should launch next year a version optimized HPC (High Performance Computing) of the processor Nehalem-EX.

Whereas the first half of 2010, the hexa-core processors should have an operating frequency higher than the Xeon Nehalem octo-cores. The memory bandwidth and the amount of memory supported by processor should also be improved.

Intel also said that a beta version of its technology Ct should be available before the end of the year. Technology Ct is a reminder to facilitate parallel programming in C or C + +.