Meet the Lynnfields - Inquirer article

Just a short article from the Inquirer. Prices are from the 1,000 unit lots to retailers, not the actual retail price expected.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquire [...] lynnfields

2 - i5 and 3 - i7 , all that fit in the LGA 1156 socket P55 motherboards.

Why do they built a LGA 1156 socket for i5's.
Can't they do it with LGA 1366?

ummmm why do we still want dual cores?

i7 is the same as the server chips but for desktop - HIGH END

i5 is cheaper to make/produce systems for - less ram channels, pcie lanes etc and is for MAINSTREAM

if i5 was for LGA1366 it would be the same price as an i7

tri-channel was more a server need (memory capacity/performance for multisocket etc) rather then a desktop feature - doesnt really give much boost but does help none the less

i5's may not have ht btw

I think the bigger question is why are they making i7's in two different sockets, one with triple channel and one with dual channel. Makes no sense.

You made a point! I hope intel rots in hell sometime in the future

For DT, tri channel has none or very little usage. But its more costly in the mobo,arch and ram, so naming a Lynnfield which will perform as well as any Bloomfield will an i7 elevates its price, even tho its much cheaper to make.
Intel had to come in with some kind of excuse for a lowly dual channel that performs as well as their supoosed "top" tri channel chips, so they call them i7s

Wait..... what? Tri-Channel puts much more bandwidth out there.

And Intel already has quad channel but I mean that kind of bandwidth is only useful in the server market where Intel has it.

But I have yet to see a dual channel memory setup beat a tri channel memory setup.

My problem is, tri channel doesnt do a thing for DT. Its a waste of resources and money. Also, Im concerned with the 1366 upgrade path, as since both Intel and AMD has decided to go wider, and not faster, or higher IPC, the ultra highend for 1366 is more cores, which already having 8 potential threads on DT, and really barely being able to ever use them, having 12 is pointless, and will be for awhile to come.
Most code can hopefully be done in parallel, tho at this point, we just dont know how much, and if its ever going to be most, and alot for sure will always be serial, and throwing more cores at serial code is like putting you know whats on bulls.
Thing is, cpus arent as exciting anymore, and everyones hoping SW will be, but as others have pointed out, both Intel and AMD have taken up the server path, where more cores are better, as well as higher BW, but has yet to be proven cost effective, doable and performance driven in any way on DT, but for a few things