Mac Pro Revamp to Feature Six Core Processor

HardMac citing sources is reporting that Apple is planning to bring Xeon Gulftown CPU to a future Mac Pro revision.

The Xeon Gulftown chip offers several enhancements over the processors used in the current Mac Pro’s, namely 32 nanometre engraving, 12MB of L3 cache and 6 cores with 12 threads.

If current Mac Pro configurations are anything to go by, Apple will most likely put two Gulftown processors in, giving the workstations 12 cores. The new processors which have only been demoed by Intel a few times are not expected until second quarter 2010 which could give Apple exclusive access.

HardMac offers additional information about the revision which is expected in the first quarter of 2010 including changes to the Mac Pro motherboards allowing support for 8 and 16GB RAM modules and 10Gbps ethernet ports.