Quote Originally Posted by Macadamia View Post
i5 is probably too competitive that it surely would cannibalize i7 if released at the the same speedgrade.

It has to be sold cheap, and its nearly the same investment size-wise as a Bloomfield. So obviously it would have to be scrapped.


Next i5 part might be a Gulftown with 2 cores disabled. (So much for the bravado speech.)
i5 is not scrapped. Its just an 45nm product only. At 32nm you have to go either down to 2 cores or up to 6.

They just remove one CPU type completely. One mask, production line etc less. i5 dies with 45nm. Only i7 and i3 goes to 32nm.