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Intel's 32nm Gulftown six-core arrives in Q2 2010 |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 11:05 |
130W TDP
Intel's second 32nm high-end CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads based on Westmere 32nm technology is set to launch in a year from
today. Intel plans to introduce its high-end CPU codenamed Gulftown in Q2
2010.
The company has said to a special few that the new CPU
should fit the 130W TDP envelope and that it will work on existing LGA 1366
infrastructure. You won't need a new chipset, as it will work with X58.
The memory supported is DDR3, and officially Intel will only
support the miserable 1066MHz memory and not even 1333MHz memory will be supported, but we are
quite sure that faster memory will work.
So now you can bet that the soon-to-launch Core i7 975 will be
the fastest CPU this Xmas, and a 3.33GHz Bloomfield 45nm quad-core will be the
fastest you can buy.
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