Start saving your lunch money...............

[yossam]

 


http://www.tweaktown.com/news/31076/intel-s-haswell-e-to-kick-some-serious-ass-features-8-cores-ddr4-support-x99-pch-and-more/index.html/index.html?utm_source=ttnewsletter&utm_medium=ttemail&utm_campaign=ttcs

[Tangled-Universe]

Finaaaallllyyy...they could have done this years ago already, but lack of serious competition in the high-end section of CPU industry didn't force them to do so.

If prices aren't horrendous I may get one.

[cyphyr]

At an un-educated guess I' will need a new Mother board and some pretty damn fast ram so it don't bottleneck. At another uneducated guess they would probably start round the £400 -£500 mark and drop a little after 6  months or so.
Want!

[penang]

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/31076/intel-s-haswell-e-to-kick-some-serious-ass-features-8-cores-ddr4-support-x99-pch-and-more/index.html/index.html?utm_source=ttnewsletter&utm_medium=ttemail&utm_campaign=ttcs

There is something inside the article that arouses my suspicion:

Haswell-E supposed to have 8-core, with hyperthreading there is a total of 16 logical threads that can be tapped into

However, the article also included the following:

* TDP of 6.5W

I hope it is not a misquote, I hope the 6.5W TDP is true, however, I doubt it

Intel is about to push out the Avoton SoC, also 8-core, also hyper-threadable, with 16 threads

However Avoton is under the Atom category - and Intel is pushing it to be the chip for micro-server

The Avoton itself has a TDP of 20W, yes, with all 8 cores running, with 16 threads in full use, the Avoton SoC consumes 20W of power

On the other hand, the Haswell supposed to be a full-fledge, red-blooded CPU. How can be a Haswell-E chip consuming 60% less power than an Atom chip counterpart ?

[freelancah]

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[Tangled-Universe]

It's a typo Penang.

The Dutch sites I have read the news on report a TDP of 130-140 Watt for the Haswell-E 8-core.