Bulldozer processor made by AMD’s existence seems to imply its own concerns on the part of Intel’s main competitor. So as the action over Intel for this inconvenience, making a major competitor AMD is planning to re-release of a new LGA 1366 CPU, better known as Core i7 Extreme Edition 995X-based 6-core processing and capable of 3.6 GHz. And this plan will be realized also reportedly entered the third quarter of 2011.
Latest chip built using Intel’s 32nm architecture Gulftown and packing no less than six processing cores that are supported by the presence of Hyper-Threading technology and 12MB of L3 cache memory that’s shared. As previously mentioned, the frequency of operation of this processor has been set at 3.6 GHz and can reach a maximum of 3.86 GHz with the activation of the existing Turbo Boost.
On the other hand, basically the chip was also carrying similar specifications to the model of the popular current processor is an Intel Core i7 990X, which together consist of 6.4GT / s QPI links, and supports the SSE instruction AVX 4.2 and the memory controller tri- channel integrated DDR3-1066. Even this processor TDP is estimated at 130W.
Regarding the date when the release is still a puzzle so far. But when referring to the publications emanating from the official site Donanim Haber recently, has shown that Intel will launch the new processor when entering the third quarter of 2011. And the price is reportedly for $ 999.
Meanwhile, for the existence of an Intel LGA 2011 first built in the Sandy Bridge architecture-E high-performance reportedly also will soon be launched into the fourth quarter of 2011. And the price is offered for $ 1000 for LGA 1366 platform EOL like this.
So the question here, why Intel released the CPUs with the high prices just months ahead of the launch of new chips the LGA 2011? Possibility that this could be due to Intel’s own party may feel threatened by the presence of AMD Zambezi plan that reportedly also to be released in June 2011. And keep in mind, AMD is reportedly even pack the Zambezi as many as eight processing cores with Turbo Core technology support as well as an open multiplier.
