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Sandy E to Ivy-E?
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Wonder if Intel will start to increase the number of threads/cores beyond 16/8?
I always thought that the reason that they limited the design of the home rig, ie Ivy/Sandy Bridge was to keep that separate to the Server and Enthusiast parts. Can't have better performing home parts than enterpprise after all!
There was always some bull-excuse that home users don't NEED more than 4 cores for the software they run. Limiting the number of cores to 4 would be an artificially good way to prove this.
I'm REALLY hoping that AMD steps up to the mark and releases a chip that can stand at least toe-to-to with the current gen Intel kit on a core per core basis, and blow the "limit" of 4 cores off the home market. That;s where I see the market going. Bulldozer just didn't deliver this, so now we wait for Piledriver....
As for the number of pins on Intel sockets, surely these will only need to change if there is:
1. Further increases in the number of PCI-e lanes
2. An increase in the number of DDR3 channels or a move to another format... such as DDR4
3. Further integration of the "southbridge" into cpus - ie fully a computer on a chip!
4. changes to or inclusion of Thunderbolt on chip.
I would think that the next gen would likely see an emphasis of thunderbolt and more PCI-e lanes, but not USB3 as this has obvious licensing costs. Maybe even the storage controller....SATA 3 on chip anyone?
Hell, what do I know....
I always thought that the reason that they limited the design of the home rig, ie Ivy/Sandy Bridge was to keep that separate to the Server and Enthusiast parts. Can't have better performing home parts than enterpprise after all!
There was always some bull-excuse that home users don't NEED more than 4 cores for the software they run. Limiting the number of cores to 4 would be an artificially good way to prove this.
I'm REALLY hoping that AMD steps up to the mark and releases a chip that can stand at least toe-to-to with the current gen Intel kit on a core per core basis, and blow the "limit" of 4 cores off the home market. That;s where I see the market going. Bulldozer just didn't deliver this, so now we wait for Piledriver....
As for the number of pins on Intel sockets, surely these will only need to change if there is:
1. Further increases in the number of PCI-e lanes
2. An increase in the number of DDR3 channels or a move to another format... such as DDR4
3. Further integration of the "southbridge" into cpus - ie fully a computer on a chip!
4. changes to or inclusion of Thunderbolt on chip.
I would think that the next gen would likely see an emphasis of thunderbolt and more PCI-e lanes, but not USB3 as this has obvious licensing costs. Maybe even the storage controller....SATA 3 on chip anyone?
Hell, what do I know....
Looks to be only 6 cores again 
http://www.techpowerup.com/174811/T...-Core-Processors-To-Still-Pack-Six-Cores.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/174811/T...-Core-Processors-To-Still-Pack-Six-Cores.html