Leaked Roadmap Reveals Multiple Enthusiast Sandy Bridge-E Processors

Nothing like a leaked roadmap to get the juices flowing.

The first class are the 6-core chips at the very top of the pile, probably branded "Extreme Edition", which feature both unlocked BClk multipliers, and have 15 MB of L3 cache, among several other features enabled. Traditionally these processors cost around US $1000. The first of such chips will be clocked at 3.30 GHz.

The TechPowerUp news posting goes on to talk about the quad memory channels and ability to run 4 graphics cards without a bridge chip.  This is basically mirroring my thoughts that the Sandy Bridge-E is two current generation Sandy Bridge chips smashed together on a single processor.  

Considering the high end features 6 cores, do you think there is 2 cores disabled on there someplace?  Knowing Intel. No.

Be sure to check out the "Source" for the roadmap or visit TPU for the English version.

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