Intel LGA2011 Details Surface Along with Launch Window

This news posting is rather short but brings to light some of the details surrounding the new LGA2011 platform designed to replace the LGA1366, the most important part is the timeframe, they are saying by the end of the year!!

One of the bigger reasons Intel's enthusiast platform requires 2011 pins in the socket is that Sandy Bridge E comes with a quad-channel DDR3 memory controller, which should result in up to twice as high memory bandwidth as Sandy Bridge and its dual-channel memory controller.

Other differences include more cache, 4 to 8 CPU cores, HyperThreading, 40 PCIe channels (20 in Sandy Bridge) and perhaps the most important of all, individual bus frequencies for SATA and USB interfaces, which means bus overclocking will be back with LGA2011. This is of course very positive for overclockers.

A few things to notice here.

• The name - Sandy Bridge E ??
• Quad Channel DDR3!
• 40 PCIe Lanes
• 4 and 8 core CPUs

is it just me or does this sound like they are taking 2 current Sandy Bridge CPUs and mashing them together on the same die.  So instead of adding more cores to a CPU we're adding more cpus which basically creates a dual Quad Core processor. 

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