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Upcoming Intel Core CPUs Detailed

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Intel is poised to release new performance and high-end processors across its various Core family brands, within Q1 2010 and later. OCWorkbench, citing sources in Japan, released tentative release dates and information of new Core family processors. Among a few known names such as the six-core Core i7 980X, there are a few new ones. Details and dates are as follows:
  • Core i7 980X "Gulftown": six-core, LGA-1366, 3.33 GHz (turbo: 3.60 GHz), March 16
  • Core i7 970 "Bloomfield": quad-core, LGA-1366, 3.33 GHz (turbo: 3.46 GHz), Q3, 2010
  • Core i7 930 "Bloomfield": quad-core, LGA-1366, 2.80 GHz (turbo: 3.06 GHz), February 28
  • Core i7 880 "Lynnfield": quad-core, LGA-1156, 3.06 GHz (turbo: 3.73 GHz), Q2, 2010
  • Core i5 680 "Clarkdale": dual-core, LGA-1156, 3.60 GHz (turbo: 3.80 GHz), Mid-May
  • Core i3 550 "Clarkdale": dual-core, LGA-1156, 3.20 GHz, Q2, 2010
  • Pentium E6700 "Wolfdale-2M": dual-core, LGA-775, 3.43 GHz, Q2, 2010
source :- http://www.techpowerup.com/114273/Upcoming_Intel_Core_CPUs_Detailed.html
 
The i7 930 sounds interesting, the other 1366's sound expensive. Not quite sure why new 775 chips are coming out though. That won't help the sales of the i3 and i5, which overlap quite well in price/performance.
 
Some on this forum have been saying 1156 is a dead socket (already?) so this information is amusing.

Have to agree with the source comments, turbo of 3.46 from 3.33 on that 1366 quad core... Wut?

At least the Lynnfield has some grunt to its turbo with 3.06 to 3.73.
 
I though 775 was old tech?

I would hardly say it's old tech merely superseded.

I guess the problem for Intel is putting to bed what was a successful platform. With plentiful s775 users there's a good upgrade market for existing users making a simple CPU upgrade without the cost of mobo upgrading. It makes good business sense to carry the line.
 
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