Report: Intels Haswell-E Processor to Support DDR4 Memory

lol this will replace my centurion that hasn't yet been released either... ROFL

"the Haswell-E will have from 12 to 16 cores"
What just happened? oO
Do they wanted to write 6 cores and 8 cores (so 12 threads and 16 threads)? This is a serious jump from 6 cores to 12-16 if this is true...

I just feel so bad for AMD cpu's (((

Well this will come out late 2014, so maybe... The DDR4 is out before that. But as Menarchon allready said... those 12-16 are most propably threads, not cores...

I call BS. 8 cores, max. It'll be a couple years before we see Intel go 12-16 cores. Why, I don't know.

Who doubt the core numbers.. check -E editions, and Xeon CPUs. We are not talking about consumer grade CPUs, it's Haswell-E. Something that the regular Joe cannot afford or just won't buy. I think it's quite possible Intel will ship it with so many cores. (Maybe they hired an AMD engineer?)

Major errors in this article. DDR4 HAS been finalized; JEDEC released the final specification in September 2012. Production of DDR4 began in the second half of 2012. DDR4 DIMMs were demoed in early 2013, and will be sold beginning in late 2013 (for servers, since no consumer boards will support DDR4 at that time).

Can't wait for DDR4.

Anonymous said:

I call BS. 8 cores, max. It'll be a couple years before we see Intel go 12-16 cores. Why, I don't know.

Intel's current Xeon E7 lineup has 10 models featuring 10 cores and 20 threads: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processor-comparison/compare-intel-processors.html?select=server

The lowest-end 10-core Xeon (E7-2850) had a $2558 launch price tag; roughly 8X the price of an i7-3770.

And there is the Xeon Phi which has up to 60 cores and 240 threads.

I believe crucial are on track to release DDR4 sticks for the end of this year, clock speed will be higher, efficiency higher as well as higher density, although we don't really know what to do with faster memory right now, more RAM is always good as well as lower energy bills at this time

Why dont they release Hasewell E and just skip ivy bridge E.. why waste time?

Samsung brought out ddr4 ram in 2011. How can this article claim it's not been finalized?

Anonymous said:

Samsung brought out ddr4 ram in 2011. How can this article claim it's not been finalized?

That stuff was produced before the DDR4 specification was finalized (which happened in September 2012). There doesn't have to be a specification for people to produce some prototypes, indeed the specification probably takes lessons learned from prototypes into account.

why dont they just skip to ddr5 like in graphics cards. Ive never even seen a device use ddr4, i would assume ddr5 would be cheaper as its more widely used already.

Anonymous said:

why dont they just skip to ddr5 like in graphics cards. Ive never even seen a device use ddr4, i would assume ddr5 would be cheaper as its more widely used already.

Sigh... the GDDR5 used in graphics card is a modified version of DDR3 memory. DDR4 is newer and more advanced than GDDR5. Most likely they'll later develop a GDDR6 based on DDR4.

Anonymous said:

Anonymous said:

why dont they just skip to ddr5 like in graphics cards. Ive never even seen a device use ddr4, i would assume ddr5 would be cheaper as its more widely used already.

Sigh... the GDDR5 used in graphics card is a modified version of DDR3 memory. DDR4 is newer and more advanced than GDDR5. Most likely they'll later develop a GDDR6 based on DDR4.

Actually, GDDR5 is based on GDDR4 and GDDR3, which were based on DDR2.

RE this "report", we've known this for ages...

"Given that none of these details have been finalized"

All of the details have been finalized, they just haven't been made public yet. Fudzilla is wrong in implying that "consumers" will get 12-16 cores. That'll be the higher end versions of the chip. -E will still be 6 cores...maybe 8 depending on what business decision the higher ups make.