Intel Leaked Roadmap for Sandy Bridge E-series
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E-series to be the new X?
An Intel slide deck leak from German site Computer Base has given Wccftech a look at the roadmap for desktop processors over the next year.

A high-end Sandy Bridge, denoted with a letter E, will launch late this year in a 6-core, 12-thread configuration. It will also support quad-channel DDR3 and PCIe 2x16 graphics. Sandy Bridge-E will rule the "extreme" performance realm for at least until mid-2012.

Those looking beyond Sandy Bridge will get to see Intel's new process refresh of the technology in Ivy Bridge which will appear in the first half of 2012. Perhaps it will have a coming out party at CES in January 2012.
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i feel confused with intel roadmap
I thing AMD is still 18-24 months of even being close to intel. So its a price thing for AMD>
I agree. I know that the new LGA 1155 is said to be compatable going forward, but what about my LGA 1366 or the LGA 1156. They didn't last long at all.
I don't know. AMD's latest Llano APUs seem to have given a slight competition to Intel's SB as they seem to process multiple applications with ease at once while Intel's SB couldn't. I think that showed Intel that AMD is perhaps going to kick it in to gear and not worry about the bang for the buck too much. Not saying they're going to hit the prices of Intel's processors, but they are certainly going to be much better.
Is this new e-series SB on a new socket or 1155? what about ivy bridge? chipset doesn't necessarily mean same socket and intel already announced a new socket; just look at the MSI/asus/asrock anouncements with regards to am3/am3+ compatibility. same chipset but compatible on either socket. Quad channel is making me think it'll likely be new?
The ivy bridge CPUs will supposedly be another 20% increase over current SB models, which is essentially the jump intel made from the 1156>1155.
I dont know what you are talking about, but 1366 was one of the longest lasting sockets ever. It's still going! 990x is still the fastest CPU according to Intel. I mean, the i7 Series was released 2008, and has held the performance crown for 3 years. Thats even better than AM3, which is 2-2.5 years, and 775 was fragmented by different incompatible chipsets, so I believe it was better than that too! 1156 was a bit disappointing given its relatively tiny lifespan of less than a year, i think around 8 months? Hopefully 1155 will last into Ivy Bridge, and up until what would be called something like Ivy Bridge EX. Thats a solid 1.5-2 years out of it at the least, which is fairly average or decent for a socket. And besides, better a new socket, than using an old one that holds your CPU design back.
was hitting f5 furiously to no avail ;P
I want a socket where I can upgrade to a newer technology in 5-10 years, not next week
There is always a tradeoff to this. You limit what you can change as far as the underlying architecture by keeping a very common socket. Since they are going to QUAD channel memory, I wager that requires a very different data path. That isn't going to be the same socket by a long shot.
You either get massive increases in performance and the way things work, or very common socket type. Keeping backwards compatibility can often hinder a platform.
Didn't we have people panning AMD for often changing their sockets back when Intel was still using 775?
Only the uber expensive Westmere EX is scalable to 16 and that'll set you back $8000 before you've even considered other components. Ridiculous.
The production costs of a 10 core Xeon is not that much higher than that of their lowest end Sandy Bridge chip, yet the price difference is almost $4000.