Socket 1567 Xeon Nehalem-EX

[Fuji]

Oh theres a simple reason for that...

Yeah, but also dont forget, sandybridge has a GPU and a Quadcore cpu on one package, so its quite obvious why it needs that many pads.

unless it contains some features beneficial to the market which the Xeon-MP is marketed toward I don't see an integrated GPU on sandybridge.

http://news.softpedia.com/images/new...nveiled-2.jpeg

The GPU looks like it would take the die area of 1.5-2 cores.

and if the I/O hub is the server variant of the x58

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/wp-co...-ex-8-core.jpg

In maintaining socket compatibility, I would speculate that the future Sandybridge based Xeon-MPs won't have the integrated PCI-E controller either.