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Intel plans a Sandy Bridge landslide in 2011

Next year will see a barrage of processors
Mon Aug 16 2010, 16:15

CHIPMAKER Intel has not confirmed reports that it will release nineteen Sandy Bridge processors next year, but the evidence does look pretty compelling.

The French site macbidouille.com is 'certain' that the firm will release the processors early next year, and even added details such as the fact what nine will have 'four hearts' and four will have 'two hearts'. Here though, we suspect that something might have been lost in translation.

This rest seems to be pretty straightforward, and we are told that frequencies will range between 2.3GHz and 3.8GHz in Turbo mode, depending on the model. Thirteen models will be pitched at desktops and the remaining nine at laptops, and fortunately, given the quality of the translation, macbidouille has grabbed a copy of the roadmap.

The biggest beast is the Intel Core i7-2600k, which has four cores running at 3.4Ghz, 8MB L3 cache and a thermal power rating of 95W. This is one of thirteen desktop models, which split between nine quad-core and four dual-core models. Laptop models, of which there are six, have an equal three and three split.

We asked Chipzilla for confirmation of the details in the published roadmap, which is reproduced below, but it refused to comment. µ

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vondrashek has definitely been smokin' some good stuff...

...by writing GHz/s or MHz/s since Hz/s = cycles/sec^2, which means the CPU, memory, or whatever device in question would be accelerating at a factor of its rated speed every second. If this were true a 3GHz rated CPU would be passing through 18GHz in just 5 seconds. In 1 minute it would reach 183GHz. In one hour it would zoom through 10,803GHz or 10.8THz...well, you get the idea.

Of course, "Smokey" vondrashek does mention "Quality Seed from Great Flavour..."

posted by : Jimbo in Thailand, 17 August 2010 Complain about this comment
Re:"The French have a tendency to eliminate English words from their language"

Pas moitié autant que je le voudrais l'ami.

Après tout, nous utilisons tous les jours des mots comme parking, week-end, Big Mac, pullover, T-shirt, et j'en passe.

J'aimerai bien voir disparaître cédérom et courriel, mais ceux-là vont visiblement rester.

posted by : Pascal Monett, 17 August 2010 Complain about this comment
300 Mhz/s Core Era....

Few Weeks back, Pundit wrote that Sandee' Bridge will have 1.86 Ghz/s DDR3 memory. thats Standard 233 Mhz/s core. So O/C FanPeople can easily expect 300 Mhz/s or 2.4 Ghz/s ddr3 Memory to Power Beast. 3 Channel.

Now Lets Imagine. Often Stated Basis for media is 333 Mhz/s. Already media is Pumping Away with CSS3.0 Ads, WordPress 3.0. Not Same Skeleton World.

Complexity With Speed, NOT RAW Speed, Figure Skating Style Performance. Ready to Go. Internet will see Boost in Quality of Page Performance. ?VT?, More Help, Faster.

Quality Seed from Great Flavour of Core.

vondrashek Heat Exhaustion Specialist.

posted by : Corree' Heartburns...., 17 August 2010 Complain about this comment
Hearty Laugh :)

In English you signify the core as being the base unit of processing in a cpu. In french the closest equivalent we have is the 'heart' or 'coeur'. You are correct.. lovely these translation glitches :)

posted by : Antoine, 17 August 2010 Complain about this comment
coeur/core

Whether they sound similar and whether the French eliminate English words from their dictionary are beside the point. 'Coeur' and 'core' are cognates.

(There's plenty of French in English.)

posted by : patrick, 16 August 2010 Complain about this comment
core/coeur/heart

The French do say "coeur" for a CPU core, it is not a mistake made by a French journalist. (Instead of "dual core" they say "double coeur"). It does sound a bit awkward, even in French. The French have a tendency to eliminate English words from their language, that is why they keep inventing French names for everything, even if other languages choose to use the English ones.

posted by : French speaking guy, 16 August 2010 Complain about this comment
Don't buy these

This is chunk of garbage Intel is going to release and sell to people. 6 Cores are not even mentioned. Stick with x58!!! These are not worth changing motherboard.

posted by : Lukas, 16 August 2010 Complain about this comment
Translation

"The French site macbidouille.com is 'certain' that the firm will release the processors early next year, and even added details such as the fact what nine will have 'four hearts' and four will have 'two hearts'. Here though, we suspect that something might have been lost in translation."

The word "core" is phonetically equivalent to the French term "coeur", which means "heart".

Pretty easy to envision a scenario where a French journalist hears "Deux Coeurs" instead of "Dual Core", which is translated to "Two Hearts".

posted by : Arc, 16 August 2010 Complain about this comment
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