Intel has a good thing going with their Core i7 lineup of chips. It’s the fastest consumer grade processor available and absolutely tears through any application you throw its way. Of course the company’s planned Core i5 series may put a little damper on their i7 sales but that doesn’t mean they won’t have some tricks up their sleeves for the high end CPU market.
bit-tech notes that the company is planning to launch a 6-core Nehalem chip for LGA1366 platform motherboards, most of which will support the new processor with a simple BIOS flash. Here’s a snippet:
It will sit alongside the Core i7 975 on this platform as Intel plans to discontinue every other Core i7 CPU later this year. What was interesting though was that the new chip apparently won’t fit under the Core i7 moniker. When probed, the sources said that Intel hadn’t finalised the name for this chip but were fairly certain that it wouldn’t fall under the i7 brand.
Multi-threaded apps will no-doubt scream on this thing, of course you might be better off with a dual CPU Xeon Nehalem rig considering how much their extreme chips usually run.
Follow & Connect