1366 Socket Intel 6 Core

DrNip · #1 04-20-2009

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Intel to Release Six-Core Chips for Desktops in a Year.
Intel Gulftown Rumoured to Arrive in Q2 2010
[04/19/2009 11:25 PM]
by Anton Shilov

Intel Corp. is projected to release its first six-core microprocessors for desktops in the second quarter of 2010, nearly two years after the company began shipments of six-core chips for high-end x86 servers.

Intel Gulftown processors – which will be drop-in compatible with LGA1366 infrastructure – will have six physical cores with Hyper-Threading technology enabled, thus, capable of processing up to twelve threads at the same time. According to a news-story by HKEPC web-site, which cites mainboard makers, the code-named Gulftown processors made using 32nm process technology, will be launched in Q2 2010, a year from now.

The Gulftown chip belongs to Westmere family of microprocessors that have some micro-architectural advantages over currently available Core i7 processors that belong to Nehalem family. Gulftown will significantly boost performance of the microprocessors while staying in the same thermal envelope of 130W.

Intel did not comment on the news-story.

SOURCE:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...in_a_Year.html

Jeffro64 · #2 04-20-2009

And drop in compatible with LGA1366 to boot!

Kal-EL · #3 04-20-2009

Six core madness and Bios revisions hell at release.

Chuchnit · #4 04-20-2009

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Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Six core madness and Bios revisions hell at release.

Bingo

Prepare for thousands of "my rig won't post with my new i7" threads

Jeffro64 · #5 04-20-2009

I'll wait until they are past all that.

hellcamino · #6 04-21-2009

I'm sure all you will need to do is buy an original i7 to flash your bios for your new i7 and board manufacturers will think that is perfectly acceptable at that time too!

Kal-EL · #7 04-21-2009

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Originally Posted by hellcamino

I'm sure all you will need to do is buy an original i7 to flash your bios for your new i7 and board manufacturers will think that is perfectly acceptable at that time too!

Reminds me of the 680i fiasco when they released the wolfdales.

Chuchnit · #8 04-21-2009

Well lots of people are bitching about the Giga-crap and Asus i7 not having a strong enough PWM system to handle the CO/C1 steppings. WTF are they gonna do with 2 more cores?