August 3rd, 2009
Gulftown/Core i9 sneak peek
Is Intel’s Core i7 range of CPUs just not offering you enough power? Well, maybe you should start saving up for a Gulftown-based processor.
32nm Gulftown-based processors aren’t due to make an appearance until Q1 next year, but that hasn’t stopped XtremeSystems’ forum member JCornell getting his hands on some of that goodness.
What’s so special about Gulftown? Well, basically you have a 50% increase in cores, threads and cache. That means 6 cores per processor, or 12 threads, and 12MB of L3 cache.
Not enough power? Why not get two, fit them onto a Skulltrail-type platform and have 12 cores at your disposal!
OK, I want, I want!
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