Posted on Friday, July 24 2009 @ 17:27 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
X-bit Labs
claims Intel's six-core Gulftown is scheduled for late first half of 2010, despite rumors that this CPU would arrive earlier.
Based on the documents seen by X-bit labs, quad-core Intel Core i7 975 processor will be the hill of desktop computing from Intel till the second quarter of 2009, when the code-named Gulftown processor is set to be unveiled.
Intel Gulftown processors – which will be drop-in compatible with LGA1366 infrastructure – will have six physical cores with Hyper-Threading technology enabled, thus, capable of processing up to twelve threads at the same time.
