Quote Originally Posted by trn View Post
Bring on the cores!

But really, how does Intel plan to fit 10 cores on a desktop (non EX) socket without a 22nm 'tock'? 6 Westmere cores already span 32nm, SB will be 32nm for a while until they shrink down to 22nm.

Are SB cores smaller or arranged differently?
yeah, nehalem cores measure 24mm˛, while SB cores shall be more like ~20mm˛

the desktop SB quad-core + IGP will end up with 65w TDP

an octo-core and even a 10-core processor without the graphics part is totally possible...