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No plans for Nehalem Skulltrail from Intel |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:01 |
Nehalem might skip it
Intel told us that they won't do a reference motherboard for
Nehalem dual socket, super desktop machine but there is still hope that
partners will do it. Intel has told us that partners can do it, and it will be
up to Asus, MSI and Gigabyte to manufacture one.
We are not sure if top three manufacturer are already working on new Skulltrail
board based on Nehalem EP dual CPU platform, but this might be the only hope in
survival of Skulltrail as a concept, sspecially in 2009. Super expensive
computers might have a tough time to sell in a time of economic hardship, but the chaps who can buy Skulltrail
can still buy Skulltrail II. However, it would just cost Intel too much money to sell only
a few tens of thousands of units.
An even bigger is the lack of performance increases in a normal desktop environment with so many cores, as it’s very hard to put even
single Nehalem to good use, not to mention two of them.
Still, niche markets like workstation and video editing might benefit from this platform, but they will be free to buy Nehalem-EP as of
end of this month.
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