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12-14-2009, 02:29 AM
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Gulftown Product Name and Tentative Price Surfaces (http://www.overclockaholics.com/110474/Gulftown_Product_Name_and_Tentative_Price_Surfaces .html)
Contrary to older reports, Intel (http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/#) will stick to the Core i7 brand identifier to sell its first consumer (client) six-core processor based on the Nehalem architecture, codenamed "Gulftown". The first offering of these socket LGA-1366 processors, is the Core i7 980X Extreme Edition. Its positioning and pricing shows that Intel will replace its current flagship desktop processor (http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/#), the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition with it, and at the very same price-point of US $999 (in 1000 unit tray quantities).
A future price list also shows that the Core i7 980X Extreme Edition is slated for March 2010. A month ahead of its launch, Intel will introduce the Core i7 930, which succeeds the Core i7 920 at its price-point of $284. The Gulftown core will be manufactured on Intel's brand new 32 nm HKMG process, it features 6 processing cores with 12 threads (HyperThreading Technology), triple-channel DDR3 memory with its integrated memory controller, 6.4 GT/s QPI link to the Intel X58 Express chipset (http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/#), 12 MB of L3 cache, compatibility to platforms that support the Core i7 9xx processors, and 130W TDP. The Core i7 980X Extreme Edition comes with a clock speed of 3.33 GHz, The Core i7 930 on the other hand, is a quad-core processor (http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/#) which runs at 2.80 GHz.
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Sources: PCOnline.com.cn (http://www.pconline.com.cn), ZOL.com.cn (http://zol.com.cn) Product names and tennative pricing
Gulftown Product Name and Tentative Price Surfaces (http://www.overclockaholics.com/110474/Gulftown_Product_Name_and_Tentative_Price_Surfaces .html)
Contrary to older reports, Intel (http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/#) will stick to the Core i7 brand identifier to sell its first consumer (client) six-core processor based on the Nehalem architecture, codenamed "Gulftown". The first offering of these socket LGA-1366 processors, is the Core i7 980X Extreme Edition. Its positioning and pricing shows that Intel will replace its current flagship desktop processor (http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/#), the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition with it, and at the very same price-point of US $999 (in 1000 unit tray quantities).
A future price list also shows that the Core i7 980X Extreme Edition is slated for March 2010. A month ahead of its launch, Intel will introduce the Core i7 930, which succeeds the Core i7 920 at its price-point of $284. The Gulftown core will be manufactured on Intel's brand new 32 nm HKMG process, it features 6 processing cores with 12 threads (HyperThreading Technology), triple-channel DDR3 memory with its integrated memory controller, 6.4 GT/s QPI link to the Intel X58 Express chipset (http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/#), 12 MB of L3 cache, compatibility to platforms that support the Core i7 9xx processors, and 130W TDP. The Core i7 980X Extreme Edition comes with a clock speed of 3.33 GHz, The Core i7 930 on the other hand, is a quad-core processor (http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/#) which runs at 2.80 GHz.
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Sources: PCOnline.com.cn (http://www.pconline.com.cn), ZOL.com.cn (http://zol.com.cn) Product names and tennative pricing