Socket 1567 Xeon Nehalem-EX

[Hornet331]

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.

S2011 is rumored to be replacement for S1336 (and maybe S1156), it has nothing to do with the highend mp server socket.

I wouldn't be suprised if we see a totaly different socket for the next MP-Xeon, cause S1567 still will stay for some time.