In another round of incremental updates to its Core series lineup, Intel will be debuting its hexa-core Gulftown processor, along with a few other pieces to fill in some perceived gaps.
A report from OCWorkbench, citing Japanese news sources, claims we will be seeing the six core behemoth on March 16th, 2010. The report states that the Core i7 960 Bloomfield - just 6 months after launch – will likely be pulled.
| CPU | Codename | Cores | Speed (tb:=Turbo Boost) | Socket | Release |
| Core i7 980X EE | Gulftown | 6 + HT | 3.33 GHz (tb: 3.60 GHz) | LGA-1366 | March 16th ‘10 |
| Core i7 970 | ? Bloomfield | ? 4 + HT | ? 3.33 GHz (tb: 3.46 GHz) | LGA-1366 | Q3, 2010 |
| Core i7 930 | Bloomfield | 4 + HT | 2.80GHz (tb: 3.06 GHz) | LGA-1366 | Feb 28th ‘10 |
| Core i7 880 | Lynnfield | 4 + HT | 3.06 GHz (tb: 3.73 GHz) | LGA-1156 | Q2, 2010 |
| Core i5 680 | Clarkdale | 2 + HT | 3.60 GHz (tb: 3.80 GHz) | LGA-1156 | May 2010 |
| Core i3 550 | Clarkdale | 2 + HT | 3.20 GHz | LGA-1156 | Q2, 2010 |
? Information in Debate
[Author's Update]
As an update to this story, on February 2nd, Fudzilla released information stating that the Core i7 970 will be a 6 core, 32nm Gulftown based processor; the original source as also appended this information. If this report is in fact true then one thing is clear; Intel needs to seriously give their head a shake (and fire their marketting team) when it comes to the naming schemes which they promised to be much clearer for consumers. With the current Core i7 975 edition being a 4 core Bloomfield based chip, hiding an entirely new i7 970 Gulftown chip, somewhere in the middle of an old product line is… ridiculous.
