Rumor: Intel's 6-Core "Gulftown" Processor Delayed
Rumor: Intel's 6-Core "Gulftown" Processor Delayed
Posted 04/21/2009 at 6:12am
| by Paul Lilly
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If the latest web chatter turns out to be true, then Santa won't be stuffing any 6-core Intel chips in anyone's stockings this year. Instead, news site HKEPC tells us Intel's roadmap for for its 6-core Gulftown chip has been pushed back from Q4 2009 / Q1 2010 to sometime in Q2 2010.
From what we know so far, Gulftown will be worth the wait. Built around the Core i7 architecture, Gulftown will purportedly support HyperThreading, turning those 6 cores into 12. It will also come with two QuickPatch Interconnects (QPIs), 12MB of L3 cache, and hardware encryption support. Perhaps best of all, Intel's 32nm Gulftown likely serve as a drop-in replacement for LGA 1366 socket motherboards and work with current X58 chipsets.
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rhsquad
April 21, 2009 at 6:25pm
How cool is this gonna be? I mean, virtually dodecacore computing in a laptop! (I wonder how much this is gonna cost usthough...)
[}-{Nick Breezy}-{]
dragonfang18
April 21, 2009 at 7:51am
I was about to get the i7 965, never knew a 6 core chip is coming out. Guess I'll get a 920 and wait for this next year.
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