Intel Postpones Core 2

Mathew Everett (Sledgehammer70) Sources have surfaced that Intel has push the release of its Core 2 Extreme X6800, Core 2 Duo E6300, E6400, E6600 and E6700 processors back 1 week. While not being a huge setback for the industry it is still frustrating for everyone who is ready to buy a new PC sporting Intel’s new architecture.

June 29, 2006 3:33 PM ET in News,

Sources have surfaced that Intel has push the release of its Core 2 Extreme X6800, Core 2 Duo E6300, E6400, E6600 and E6700 processors back 1 week. While not being a huge setback for the industry it is still frustrating for everyone who is ready to buy a new PC sporting Intel’s new architecture.

Meanwhile, graphics core chipsets to support those processors – the G965 and entry-level Q963 – will also be introduced on July 27, the sources noted. In addition, the high-end Q965, which supports the Intel vPro business PC platform, will be released on September 7, the sources added.

Launch of Intel’s Core 2 Duo E4200, which features a core speed of 1.6GHz, 2MB of cache memory and support for an 800MHz FSB, and is compliant with the 946GZ/PL chipset family, is expected in the fourth quarter of 2006, according to the sources. The new CPU is intended to compete with AMD’s Socket-AM2 Athlon 64 X2 3600+, rated for a clock speed of 2GHz and fitted with 512KB of L2 cache, which reportedly is scheduled for launch during the fourth quarter.

Source: DigiTimes

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4 Comments:

  1. 1 Jul '06, 11:31 am

    If both of those low end dual cores oc well that'll be a tough choice!

  2. airbornflght
    1 Jul '06, 12:50 pm

    I think amd should have put 512k per core instead of just 256k, I wonder what the performance hit will be.

  3. Thrax
    1 Jul '06, 1:47 pm
    Quoting airbornflght

    I think amd should have put 512k per core instead of just 256k, I wonder what the performance hit will be.

    Little to nothing. The jump from 512 -> 1MB was < 1% in most apps, within the margin of error.

  4. airbornflght
    1 Jul '06, 4:30 pm

    hmm. that is interesting, I have always been told that an increase in cache size would increase perforance quite a bit.

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