Gulftown "i9" in Q1 2010 (Digitimes)

[Vozer]

Here it is. ^^



It proves that the Core 2 comparison in my table is correct.

[Chad Boga]

the thumb rule of modern economics is a product needs to become obsolete as quickly as possible, in order to drive economy.

Nonsense.

Thats what Bush said after 911 - he said SHOP, he didn't say be strong, or something like that, the moron said shop...

Unrelated and irrelevant nonsense that needlessly brings a partisan political bent to the post.

[003]

uhm... you do know that gulftown will come at the same or lower clocks as bloomfield and lynnfield right? it just has more cores, which honestly means squat in the desktop segment, this is a workstation/server cpu... :P

Don't forget it also has an additional 4mb of L3 cache which should improve clock for clock performance in various situations as well.

[Chad Boga]

nope, no intention of bringing politics - but you are wrong about the shopping part, watch storyofstuff.com and you'll discover the name of the economics genus who\s behind the planned obsolesce of products

Planned obsolesce means the product is designed to become obsolete as quickly as possible on purpose. And it applies to most of the products we have today.

Just because some crazy somewhere in the world espouses a theory doesn't mean it has been adopted by the world.

Next thing you are gonna tell me they have found Atlantis.

[Hornet331]

nope, no intention of bringing politics - but you are wrong about the shopping part, watch storyofstuff.com and you'll discover the name of the economics genus who\s behind the planned obsolesce of products

Planned obsolesce means the product is designed to become obsolete as quickly as possible on purpose. And it applies to most of the products we have today.

Some people also call this innovation...

[dpa]

hihi.. think about the vantage cpu score with this gulftown..

40k easy?

[Bo_Fox]

Here it is. ^^



It proves that the Core 2 comparison in my table is correct.

Ugh, it looks like Gulftown will only be in the EE-segment! No $300-400 high-end?? Well, Q2 2010 means April at the earliest, so that's light-years away from now! Core i7 would have been out for about 18 months by then!

[Tomasis]

Some people also call this innovation...

haha you can see how they become so cynical ..

[terrace215]

Latest server architecture being foistered upon desktop users, thus clearly a less than optimal solution than what they could have delivered.

I'll get excited when a 32nm Quad at better stock speeds gets released.

First of all, the word is "foisted".

Please spell out PRECISELY why you believe all of these products are sub-optimal for the desktop, and EXACTLY how you would have designed them better.

[terrace215]

Ugh, it looks like Gulftown will only be in the EE-segment! No $300-400 high-end?? Well, Q2 2010 means April at the earliest, so that's light-years away from now! Core i7 would have been out for about 18 months by then!

How old is that slide? The Q1 (as opposed to Q2) mention in the digitimes story for the i9 is what I found interesting, and potentially news-worthy.

[Bobsama]

While cooking your dinner, talking your wife into a quickie after dinner and then shutting down the lights for the night!

And thats on the first core..

And will still be like watching paint dry when using iTunes.

[kl0012]

Ugh, it looks like Gulftown will only be in the EE-segment! No $300-400 high-end?? Well, Q2 2010 means April at the earliest, so that's light-years away from now! Core i7 would have been out for about 18 months by then!

Actually I don't belive that 6-core CPU will be available only in one form. Any way, probably entire lineup of 6-core CPU will come down to the server area. There are no rumors about new socket for gulftown so it is expectable that Xeons will continue to be compatable with desktop S1366.

[Chad Boga]

Please spell out PRECISELY why you believe all of these products are sub-optimal for the desktop

I never said they were all sub-optimal, spend more time reading what I write.

and EXACTLY how you would have designed them better.

Intel by choosing to use 32nm to bring more cores to desktop users instead of higher clock speeds that a Quad could deliver in the same power envelope, is clearly not bringing forward the best product they easily could for desktop users.

Do I need to explain any further why the overwhelming number of desktop users would have been better off with a 32nm Westmere Quad clocked higher than what a 32nm Westmere Hex will be?

[Smartidiot89]

Intel by choosing to use 32nm to bring more cores to desktop users instead of higher clock speeds that a Quad could deliver in the same power envelope, is clearly not bringing forward the best product they easily could for desktop users.

Shrinkage doesn't automatically meen higher clockers... the % of leakage increases substansially everytime a new process arrives. So 3GHz is a barrier which after it just goes way downhill with power consumption.

[Chad Boga]

Shrinkage doesn't automatically meen higher clockers...

Intel isn't AMD.

[Mechromancer]

I hope it doesn't cost $1499 per CPU....

AMD needs to speed up Magny-Cours for this one alright. Bulldozer can't show up fast enough either. Bulldozer better live up to THIS:


It will either make history or make AMD history if it doesn't. Intel's thread count is getting higher than Fugger's bed sheets!

[Bo_Fox]

How old is that slide? The Q1 (as opposed to Q2) mention in the digitimes story for the i9 is what I found interesting, and potentially news-worthy.

Oh, ok.. For some reason, I thought it was an updated roadmap

[zalbard]

I hope it doesn't cost $1499 per CPU....

AMD needs to speed up Magny-Cours for this one alright. Bulldozer can't show up fast enough either. Bulldozer better live up to THIS:


It will either make history or make AMD history if it doesn't. Intel's thread count is getting higher than Fugger's bed sheets!

Haha, sigged!

[perkam]

Intel isn't AMD.

If LOE tells you that there is an economic theory out there that could apply to the content in the thread, you could either:

A. Respond to it because you know what the theory is
B. Respond to it because you've read up on what it is
C. Not respond to it if you don't know what it is
D. Be snobby and ignorant about and call everything he says "nonsense"

Congratulations on choosing option D

Perkam

[breathemetal]

so say i was gonna upgrade right now, should i go for a 920? or wait for a i5? but is the i5 better? im confused about all this crap. too many processors lol.

to me, it seems like i9 > i7 > i5
but why would they phase out some i7s and replace em with a crappier cpu?

[Hornet331]

there are lynnfields that will be sold under i7 and i5...

[Mech0z]

Isnt there coming a quad core with 32nm and without IG ? I want 4 or 8 cores not 6 2^n is what we want.

[Chad Boga]

If LOE tells you that there is an economic theory out there that could apply to the content in the thread, you could either:

A. Respond to it because you know what the theory is
B. Respond to it because you've read up on what it is
C. Not respond to it if you don't know what it is
D. Be snobby and ignorant about and call everything he says "nonsense"

Congratulations on choosing option D

Perkam

There are people who have theories that the moon is made of green cheese, how much of my time do you think I am going to waste on anyone espousing that?

[MomijiTMO]

Look guys, at the end of the day Intel doesn't care about you. It's a business. They exist to make money and to do this they need to best themselves and their competitors. It's obvious to me that what LOE says is correct.

[Chad Boga]

Look guys, at the end of the day Intel doesn't care about you. It's a business. They exist to make money and to do this they need to best themselves and their competitors. It's obvious to me that what LOE says is correct.

Then there should be any economic text which covers this and yet there is not.