Considering most programs today don't take advantage of 4 cores, im not to worried about the possible delay of the 6 core 12 thread cpu.

I think the number of cores on a chip is accelerating a tad too fast. I agree with kyeana, most programs have yet to fully utilize even 4 cores. I have a Phenom II 810, and only some software can take advantage of my four cores which are virtualization and video encoding.

I think for now until later next year, 4 cores should be more than enough for anyone who's not going to use their systems to only do professional work. Of course if you're doing Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas on your systems, the more cores, the merrier.

Thats what happens when you have no competition to spur you on.

We can finally run Crysis on all maxed settings with AA maxed out!

Wow... and I was planning on saving for a i7.

Just gotta keep saving...

E7450

We already got Six-Core.

It's nice to see AMD catching up, they look to be on track with their 6-core processor. I can make use of 6-cores, I wish they'd hurry up and release it.

May be too much for a desktop but more convenient for a server. I run multiple processes and really need a lot of core. The server that I use has dual quad (no HT) and would like one of these.

Other that use virtualization or whatever on a server will be happy. Overkill for a desktop.

Actually we have 3 models of 6-Core

Why come out with a new CPU if you dont have any competition?

The reason why Intel decided to delay gulftown, is because it will take me a long time to save up enough money to build a system around that beast.

I'm not worried. The only program which will take advantage of 6 cores will be 3D Mark Vantage 2. Lol

And what program needs this?

AMD, Intel just dropped blood in the water! Release the 32/28nm bits as soon as possible!

All Software needs to be dictated and forced to do OpenCL regardless of choice , and should be used on every program. And older programs must be patch to embedded open cl, like Painter, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, chat messaging, and most the most valuable, notepad, etc. To defeat the argument we don't need more cores. Being conservative on technology is always bad business, and bad for the future. Throw out the pigs out the market. What's so special reinventing the wheel again over and over? Or it's like saying we only need rockets to launch at our enemies, not for sending people to the moon.

But seriously, I still believe they might be holding out the material that intel discover? The III-V material, P-channel and N-channel transistors, maybe? Or I think it's something else, making sure that it's fully compatible with the 1366 issue? And they discover a kink in the 6-core 1336 and scrambling to fix it, after they just released a few samples out not to long ago?

Interesting that Intel decided to add some new instructions for AES. Could it have been because Via's processor trounced Intel at the encryption benches? :3

There is no "motherboard entrepreneur" left in Taiwan. There are only four big one that have access to ES CPUs.

Come on AMD we need an inexpensive chipset for a dual socket MB. Who needs 6 cores now when you can start with 4 relatively cheap cores and add another 4 when you actually need them.

I would think that they would stay with I7 as long as they can. there is no reason to release the new CPU's until they absolutly have to. Intel will probobly hold the 32nm part and optimize as much as they can until there is a possible competition from AMD. as we are all aware there is nothing from AMD that can compete with i7 as of now. So why downgrade your own cpu for no reason?. If I had to guess I would say they would even push it further. after all can anyone use moe than the existing 8 thread in the i7 CPU's right now? I don't think so.

I wonder how Intel will make the Gulftown 130W w/6 Cores, when Nehalem also uses 130W w/4 cores?

Unless they're dropping to 32nm this year...then that makes sense.

Seems reasonable at this point considering the market...

I'm debating if I should wait for this or not for my video encoding upgrade... 4 Core i7 is a beast, but 6 cores would let me encode with 4 and still let me play games and/or multitask well.

-mcg

Aw... that sucks =(

Silver lining though... maybe I can trick myself into thinking that I should build an i7 box now instead of waiting till winter...

WOW my ripbot264 program could SURE USE THIS!

my q6600 @ 3.0ghz just takes to long to encode 1080p video (and all 4 cores are buried at 100%).....i need more POWER!

what really caught my attention is that they fit on the lga1366 socket, bravo to intel for not being asses and releasing a totally new socket type for the people who don't want to shell out for a new set of motherboards

Umm when did they say the hexa core 32nm would come in q4? Didn't they already say dual cores 32nm in q4 and six core processors in H1 2010? And H1 2010 = q2 to q4 2010 usually...

There are plenty of things that will be using this... Mainly help for more multitasking... A lot of apps like video rendering, encoding, 3d rendering, image manipulation, physics etc are a lot data parallel and can do much better in GPU's. If they don't rewrite in opencl(which they should) for such things, we can at least expect apps that run very fast with larrabee. So really a GPU matters more for many things in the future...

What's the bloody point? Pointless until the majority of apps (not to mention the OS) are taking advantage of multi core systems.

Why we all bitchin about 2 more cores (50% more cores, around that in performance gain) - MORE FRIGGIN PERFORMANCE! about time i say!

Who cares that the apps dont *currently* support multithreadig? - do you see us all with single cores still? HELL NO because things are slowly changing - for the better!

Hmmmm wonder if in the future Intel will pitch a 6 core against an 8 core AMD........ like AMD now with 3 cores vs 2 Intel's....