The Core i7 six hearts from the first quarter 2010?

Considering the latest news for the second quarter of 2010, the first processor public six hearts Intel will finally be launched in March 2010, according to an internal document inadvertently filtered, and well ahead of AMD Thuban. If it was expected that the first processor based smart Gulftown Launches Family of Core i9, he actually respond to the reference 980X Core i7 Extreme Edition.

Yet it is the first representative of the Westmere architecture inherited from the Nehalem architecture, but using the new manufacturing process in house 32 nm. Equipped with 2MB of cache by heart (a total of 12 MB in this case), a link to QPI 6.4GT / s, HyperThreading, Turbo Boost, a DDR3 memory controller to 1 066 MHz and 32 PCI Express lanes, he shared the other hand most of its sheet with the Core i7 975, Intel's current flagship, it should also replace the rank of processor 1 000.

It would be compatible with most motherboards Intel X58 chipset and socket LGA1366 market already compatible with the Core i7 900 series, provided an updated BIOS is available by the manufacturers.

Intel will also replace the end of February its first Nehalem processor prices, the current Core i7 920, a new Core i7 930. It would display the same amount of 8 MB of cache, the same TDP of 130W, the same rate of $ 284 in quantities of thousands, and is distinguished by its frequency to increase from 2.66 to 2.80 GHz.