Core i5 650 Reaches 4.70 GHz on Air-Cooling

[drjunk]

no 32nm quads apparently just these dualies + gulftown

I dont understand why intel are not releasing 32nm quads before sandybridge. You would think that they would be desperate to get all its range shunk to 32nm.

[xdan]

Probably Sandy bridge is more than 32nm shrink for budget quads, it has more performance tweaking like Conroe-Perynn.

[Jamesrt2004]

I dont understand why intel are not releasing 32nm quads before sandybridge. You would think that they would be desperate to get all its range shunk to 32nm.

well as saya explained to me, intel has no need for 32nm quads there 40nm's are selling well the fab is paid off so there making the chips for little to nothing atm

[terrace215]

I dont understand why intel are not releasing 32nm quads before sandybridge. You would think that they would be desperate to get all its range shunk to 32nm.

(1) Just because 32nm Westmere quads have not been ANNOUNCED by Intel on any roadmap does not mean they won't make them... why crap all over current i5 quad sales when they don't need to?

(2) 32nm will only ramp so fast, and there'll be a LOT of Clarkdale and Arrandale volume, plus Xeon (tho that last is a small part).

(3) It could be that Sandybridge is looking good, and will make a late Q3 intro, in which case, together with (2), might not be a large enough window to justify 32nm westmere quad.

(4) They want to use the 45nm fabs for *something*, and with AMD non-competitive, why NOT keep selling quad 45nm desktop parts until Sandybridge? Higher material cost per die, BUT the 45nm fabs are "paid off" vs 32nm, so it is unclear which actually benefits them more.

So... a bunch of possibilities