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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Monday, 01 February 2010 10:04 |
No Six-core
Sandy for early 2011
The brand
new 32nm successor of Nehalem processor generation will launch as dual or quad
core. At this time there won’t be any six core CPUs based on it. It looks like the six-core generation will remain Nehalem based and Gulftown might
live beyond Q1 2011 before it gets replaced with something else.
After all, Gulftown
Core i7 980X and its potential successors are based on the new 32nm process but
they still retain Nehalem fundaments.
Sandy
Bridge will aim to replace Clarkdale and Lynnfield / Nehalem quad cores and,
naturally, Sandy Bridge will launch in mobile versions.
From this
angle you should look at Arrandale / Clardale dual-cores 32nm as the first step
in global transition to 32nm and Sandy Bridge as the real genuine 32nm
architecture.
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Processors 