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Written by Nick Farrell
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Monday, 30 November 2009 11:06 |
Are there no secrets any more?
Intel's processor roadmap, which was probably going to be
released at CES 2010, has leaked all over the world wide web.
If the documents are accurate then there are few surprises
here, as the supposed roadmap included a slew of desktop chips bearing the Core
i3, i5 and i7 labels.
The former is an entry-level processor that lacks
overclocking features and runs at 2.93GHz or 3.06GHz. The mainstream Core i5
comes in dual-core and quad-core flavors with Turbo Boost. The high-end Core i7
has all the features of the Core i5 while increasing the number of processing
threads to eight. Currently the Core i3
and i5 have only four threads.
Apparently Intel is planning a top-of-the-line hexa-core
Core i9 with 12 processing threads which is probably taking the micky a
bit. When PCLab accidentally published benchmarks of this
impressive chip Intel asked it to be taken down so it seems to have
legs as a
rumour.
It will not be long till CES 2010, so we will soon get
the confirmation of all the rumours anyway.
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