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.
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!
Quote from: yossam on June 16, 2013, 02:24:57 PM8)
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 (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 6.5WI 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 ?
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.