Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
meaning = S2011 is no MP socket and will be a different one than S2011. So S1567 will stay for some time, even when S2011 (or whatever is the socket for sandybridge) is around. When ever intel decides to release a replacement for nehalem EX i guess well see a new socket, but i don't think that will happen before 2013-14. It took nehalem ex 2 years and several months to be available after nehalem was released. Sof if it follows the same pattern and sandybridge comes beginning 2011 the eraliest date we can expect MP sandybridge will be 2013.
It's hard to believe that Nehalem has been out for a year and like four months.

I think the Nehalem-EX platform is coming out later than planned. I remember reading about a delay although i can't remember when.


I say this b/c generally, the XeonMP line is delayed by a year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon

There are exceptions, but generally, there's a 6 month-1 year delay.

If you look at the XeonMP release date, you'll see that Intel has been somewhat silent about that platform. You have a year or two between releases but between 2005-2008, we had 7 XeonMP CPU releases.

Nehalem EP was released in march of 2009 so it would make sense that given the delay that it would come out around this time of year.

Having said that I think we'd see a Nehalem-EX successor sometime next year ish based on the Westmere design. And then a year or so later, transition to Sandybridge.