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When are the first consuimer 6+ core cpu's coming from Intel?

Where's Skylake been *confirmed* to be quads?

Intel are in a silly position really, but they can get themselves out of it, put 6 cores where current 1150 i7's are, and then 8 cores where their 2011 hex cores are.

But that's probably not going to happen.

Personally, I don't think Intel will do it till AMD's got an all around product that's competing in all area's.
 
Intel won't risk cannibalising their own server cpus until AMD forces them to; even the workstations used for heavy content creation (video/3d) usually use xeons.
 
It's not going to happen unless AMD get their act together and force Intel's hand, a £270 hex aimed at enthusiasts would mean they'd have to drop prices of their entire LGA1150 range and they'd lose loads of money in the OEM market.
 
Can't come soon enough. Agree with what everyone has said though, from a business point of view why would they.

So I'm still sat here on sandybridge and the cost to upgrade just doesn't seem worth it.
 
Depends on what you consider expensive.
At the moment, I wouldn't really hesitate at putting 430 into an IB-E Hexcore at the end of the month for example.
 
£400 for just a cpu isn't consumer, your average gamer wants a full working pc for about 500-600; this being an overclockers forumn we are generally willing to spend more.
 
What an absolute purchase its turned out to be for people who bought 3930k's on release. Still the fastest cpu's and looking to remain that way until going into 2015. Hell no need to even upgrade if you can resist temptation still got a couple of years until they start showing their age

Same goes for the i7 920's
 
mmj_uk said:
It's not going to happen unless AMD get their act together and force Intel's hand, a £270 hex aimed at enthusiasts would mean they'd have to drop prices of their entire LGA1150 range and they'd lose loads of money in the OEM market.
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Finners said:
Can't come soon enough. Agree with what everyone has said though, from a business point of view why would they.

So I'm still sat here on sandybridge and the cost to upgrade just doesn't seem worth it.
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Seriously these view points never cease to amaze me. Why would a business who sold you a CPU want to make a cpu good enough so you buy a second CPU.... ? If you answer "I don't know" to that question, I don't know what planet you are living on.

Imagine a crazy world in which only AMD or Intel exists, now imagine your first CPU, now decide if a business would fail to ever improve on this cpu significantly purely because there wasn't competition? The notion is illogical and laughable. If Intel make a 3% faster cpu, then 99% of people already with a cpu do not upgrade. Their sales drop significant and no one ever upgrades again. Or Intel make something significantly better, constant improvements and, people who have already bought an Intel cpu might buy..... another cpu :o


These companies are in business for MONEY, they compete to get YOUR MONEY, if there is no competition you believe they would cease trying to get your money? Really?

This argument is repeated over and over again "we need AMD or Nvidia won't make better cards/will price them insanely!!!!!". First, no company will stop trying to pry your money from you and second we already know Nvidia have no problem increasing prices beyond competitive levels even with faster cards available, so neither argument is even remotely valuable.

What about price in general again, it's about the consumer. I upgraded to a 7970 from a 6950 because the price and performance was right. If it offered a 20% boost I would not have spent £315 on one, if it offered 150% performance increase then I might have spent more. If Nvidia don't exist and AMD priced say the 7970 at £700, they would reduce the number of people upgrading by a huge portion. Higher profit on far fewer sales.

Intel prices where they price at because that is the price the market bears, nothing even remotely to do with AMD. AMD price where they price for reasons usually little to nothing to do with Nvidia, and we know Nvidia clearly doesn't give a crap about AMD pricing when it slaps $1k on a Titan or $3k on a Titan Z.
 
humbug said:
Why should Intel wait for AMD?

Surly what Intel do is down to Intel, not AMD.
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What Intel do is down to Intel, no one's saying anything contrary to that.

Intel frankly can't just bash out hexcore mainstream chips at sensible prices because it'll cannibalise their 2011 sales and create quite a **** storm.

There needs to be a big push for them to do so, and that will really only come when AMD are competing in all area's.
 
Martini1991 said:
What Intel do is down to Intel, no one's saying anything contrary to that.

Intel frankly can't just bash out hexcore mainstream chips at sensible prices because it'll cannibalise their 2011 sales and create quite a **** storm.

There needs to be a big push for them to do so, and that will really only come when AMD are competing in all area's.
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Of Course if AMD had more users, made more sales than Intel, then that might force Intel to compete some how.

Intel make their own decisions, if they chose not to make an affordable 6 core, if their reasoning for that is a lack of competition, it is their choice. the only ones responsible for that choice are Intel and only Intel.

Its not so much "Because AMD can't compete" its actually "Because Intel chose not to make an affordable 6 core"
 
It's traditionally been intels way of doing things by keeping the 6 core chips for the high end platform, x58 - z79 and the upcoming x99. 4 core 8 thread being the most for the mainstream such as the current hw range and the soon to be released devils canyon chip on 1150. Cant see them releasing a hex core on the mid range tbh.
 
AMD does help keep down the prices of Intel cpu's, i remember the insane pricing for the original pentium cpus; dribbling out tiny increases with massive price variations.
 
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