Other info found: Release date: November 2008 Lowest speed available: 2,66 ghz. Highest speed at release: 3,2 ghz Highest stable speed: 4,5 ghz. Highest overclock found: 5,56 ghz. This CPU rocks as hell. Right in the release I'm buying a complete system with this new core, along with a new X58 mainboard. It has 1366 pins, so it would not fit into your old crappy 775 platform. I thought you guys liked to know this
Known about the Nehalems for quite a while but seriously, not getting that exited yet. It seems very few things make use of the dual cores I'm running even though they've been around a good while now, and even less is equipped for quad core so octa-core really makes no difference if nothing uses it. Yeah in the future this is going to be good but thats two, maybe three years away unless the "new" idea of adding graphics processors and other components into the CPU actually takes off... Really the Atom is a much more revolutionary step by Intel (and a more exciting one)
finally 4+ ghz stock processors... I am not going to wait untill Q4 of this year, but if I don't I can buy a new PC again next year -.-"
Nah, but I rather have a 3,x ghz CPU octa/quad cored then a 3.16 D2C (E8500), even if they hardly use 2 cores, these are simply at higher speeds. Plus that quickpath channel, it means that a program doesn't have to be build at multiple cores to run 2 threads. atom has no use for me though. I hate smartphones. My laptop has more performance, better to work on for a longer period than 1h (I get headaches if I try to write an essay or 2), and has a better cost/performace rate. I do have a smartphone though, to try it out and it stinks. probs a smartphone is fun to show and impress (Iphone-run), but it isn't usefull at all. And about atom CPUs in laptops, those 7'' things stink as well. You get headaches if you try to look at that one minipixel that has to represent the letter 'a'. The keyboard is too small as well. Plain old 15'' laptop is just perfect for me, big enough for a regular, normal CPU. and AMD hasn't got anything to offer, their phenom 9850 is worse and more expensive than a regular Q6600... I think AMD was already completely overruled at the Q9 series. btw, xlink, that article of you shows me different than other articles I've read. The nehalem would be 32nm as well. That article also has planned the Sandy Bridge in, while that's incredibly speculative.
nehalem will be launched at 45nm, then a year later a newer revision(westmere) will be released using the 32nm process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture) intel's been using that strategy for the past few years Year A- die shrink Year B- new architecture so beginning part of 2006 65nm netburst chips later part of 2006 conroe @ 65nm later part of 2007 penryn @ 45nm later part of 2008 nehalem @ 45nm 2009 westmere @ 32nm. 2010 Sandy Bridge @32nm 2011 ??? @ 22nm