Not long after sharing its 32nm processor plans with the press earlier this year, Intel revealed that it had begun shipping the first Westmere engineering samples to a select group of laptop and desktop PC manufacturers for testing. As it is often the case, one tech site seems to have gotten hold of these parts a little early and ran some quick benchmarks for us to look at.

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WHOOOOO Intel FTW first consumer six-core processor

"...a 32nm hexacore chip, known as Gulftown..." - Sweet!

"...it holds 12MB of L3 cache..." - That's more in Cache than my first 3 computers had in system RAM!

"...an expected price between $1,000 and $1,500..." - D'oh!

1.1v!? ....holy hanna

Hanna is holy?

well....she was before....i don't want to talk about it.

Better behave and not hijack this thread

nothing interesting here. move along.

1st it was the MHz battle. That went to its logical conclusion (see Pentium 4 disaster).
Now it's the cores battle. Keeping adding cores, the more there are, the more useless they are.

what?
a vast majority of games use two or three cores, in the near future they will use 4 , possibly more. check your productivity benchmarks and scores. they benefit greatly from four cores. as well as things like rendering, video editing, etc.
servers are faster and more productive now from using 6 core processors.

umm yeah competition hath wrought faster more capable and productive cpu's
while you obviously embrace the ways of the Luddite, you may have noticed that they have had spectacular success since the Pentium 4. might i suggest an abacus?

.....move along

lol @ abacus. That's a 700+ year retrogress. All good points stated.

I think now it's all about multi-core battle that NVIDIA already won
Just think about having 512 cores on a chip working on a lower frequency instead of 6 cores working on higher frequency. Who knows and already saw the advantages of CUDA technology will understand what am I talking about.

, your not serious are you??
you have no idea what you are talking about.....thats a GPU, you know...a graphics card. this article is about a six core CPU. Geezus, do some reading.

Yup red you are right, beside nvidia is only trying to get themselves in that position not sure in the long run they can; because I dont think nvidia has the financial muscle to sustain couple of tough years ...... whereas let alone Intel, AMD has proved that they can do just that by hanging on and continuously improving their products. I believe as soon as AMD and later on Intel (with larrabee) start producing chips with something like fusion (provided they can perform well) nvidia will be in deep s****. Anyways, its just a calculated guess thats about it.