Intel's '09 Roadmap Revealed: Part 1

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  • "here is a quick End-of-Life (EOL) product break-down for both consumer desktop and enterprise workstation/server products."

    Where is this elusive break-down?
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  • As I recall, P3 was a clear winner, P4 added features that actually made performance worse, and then the mighty comeback with Core2 was more or less reverting to P3/Pentium M architecture. Now, they're once again adding all of the features of P4 to the Core2 architecture. Is there any reason to think that this won't cause the exact same problems it did last time? Atom was the first new hyperthreading cpu in a while, and TBH, the performance of it is pathetic, it doesn't bode well for Nehalem.
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  • giovanni86
    i will wait on official benchmarks.
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  • EmerilLIVE
    It's not impossible to do multi-threaded cores properly, Sun has been doing it for years.
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  • one-shot
    All we can do is start speculating....or just wait for it to come out in a few months :)
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  • frozenlead
    lots of >65W on that board...
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  • eodeo
    W3570 3.20GHz 8MB 130W 1333MHz 1 Workstation $999
    XE 3.20GHz 8MB 1066/800 130W LGA-1366 4/8 45nm $999
    W5580 3.20GHz 8MB 130W 1333MHz 2 Workstation $1600

    Can anyone explain the difference between 1st and 2nd? Its just the name, right?

    How about the 3rd? What does 2 sockets mean? Only 2 of these can be used per system? Does this mean that even the Xeon version of the normal processor with 1 socket can only be used one per system?

    How do you make blades/farms out of these with these restrictions? How was it done until now?
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  • exiled scotsman
    No Mobile love?

    When is the Mobile version of the i7 slated to come out? Part 2 perhaps?
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  • tormentor22
    Arent the X58, abd the G4x series 775 sockets?? well i may be not sure abt the X58 but teh G4x series have been around for a while.


    eodeo
    Well actually that is a different story, 2 sockets or 1 means that on a single bord u can set either 1 or 2 cpus.
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  • eodeo
    Well actually that is a different story, 2 sockets or 1 means that on a single bord u can set either 1 or 2 cpus.

    Tormentor22, thanks for a clear answer. I was afraid of that.

    W3570 3.20GHz 8MB 130W 1333MHz 1 Workstation $999
    XE 3.20GHz 8MB 1066/800 130W LGA-1366 4/8 45nm $999

    So why would anyone get the regular model, or the xeon model? Difference is solely in the name, not even in the price (unlike geforce/quadro)
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