Intel May Release Core i7 975 in Early April
Several distributors and retailers are showing that Intel's upcoming Core i7 975 will ship at the beginning of April, not the end of May.
Is the Intel Core i7 975 coming sooner than we think? That's what many distributors and retailers are reporting, and actually have the upcoming processor listed for next month. As an example, this website shows an April 6 street date, and this website shows an estimated date of April 7. Granted, these dates aren't official, and are estimates only. However, it's a huge jump considering that the Core i7 975 wasn't expected to ship until the end of May.
The release of the 45nm Core i7 975 (Extreme) is a rather highly-anticipated one, as the quad-core Bloomfield processor will serve as the new flagship chip for Intel, boasting a core speed of 3.33 GHz, support for LGA 1366 sockets, uses 1 MB of L2 cache and 8 MB of L3 shared cache memory, and has a TDP of 130W. Recently the processor was leaked, overclocked, and benchmarked, pushed up to an "extreme" clock core speed of 5,239 MHz, breaking the then-current record of Futuremark's 2DMark05 benchmark application. As it stands now, the benchmarked rig featuring the Core i7 975 sits in the #2 position, recently conquered by a rig sporting Intel's Core i7 965.
As of this writing, the Intel Core i7 975 will cost end-users a whopping $999 USD; the Core i7 950, clocking in at 3.06 GHz, will be available as well for a cheaper-but-still-hefty $562 USD. Other processors included in the original May lineup consist of the Core 2 Duo E7600 ($84), the Pentium Dual-Core E6300 ($84), and the Celeron Dual-Core E1600 ($53).
Intel also plans to ship six Core 2 Quad processors next month.
"Intel also plans to ship six Core 2 Quad processors next month."
That's it? No further explanation?
Money, got to have it...you can do good thangs, good thangs with it!
Everybody sing along!
Okay, I KNOW NOW!
Maybe this is an Intel April fools joke? Then again, I guess some people would be considered fools to spend this kind of money on a CPU. I say good for you if you can! All my money will be going to therapy!
The celeron's from the core lineup do overclock really well. If it's anything similar to the current dualcore celerons, you'll see one of the easiest 100% overclocks in the market.
Such prices only mean that there is to little competition on the market. By the way, the Core i7 is smaller than the C2Quad, so it is probably cheaper to produce. Just a thought...
We need someone to come out with a new chip, faster and cheaper to kick some overgrown intel ass.
It'll need a massive fan will it be cooled by aircooling!
2DMark05? You mean 3DMark 05?
maybe they'll realease a dual core i5 or i3?
An earlier TH news release included a listing of all of those. You can find it here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-i7-core-prices,7326.html
I believe dual core market for Intel's product line up currently code named "Clarkdale" which will be built on the 32nm process "Westmere" is the next release of Dual-Core chips. I don't believe there will be a Nehalem based dual core as Nehalem and the Core i7 and i5(also Quad Core) is Intel's platform for pushing quad core's completely main stream and not just the enthusiast and server markets. However it's important to note that the Dual-Core "Westmere" 32nm chips will be targeted at more mainstream and budget desktop PCs rather then higher performance gaming rigs. Also the gaming industry is likely going to see a big push towards utilization of multi-threaded applications and having more cores may begin to significantly impact game performance.