Intel Principle Engineer wants to Know if You would Buy 12-Core Extreme Processor

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Not sure if this will get them making a 12-core 24-threaded Ivy Bridge E processor, but here is hoping they do!

http://www.hardware-360.com/intel-principle-engineer-wants-to-know-if-you-would-buy-12-core-extreme-processor/

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No thx but a cheap 6 core Ivy-E with disabled HT would be completly diffrent matter ;)
 
Not for 1200 bucks or some retarded amount. No thanks. What we need is an 8 core 16 thread mainstream cpu for about 400 bucks. KK Thanks Intel.
 
If i had obscene amounts of cash, you bet.

12C/24T *unlocked* running @ 4GHz+?

Hell yes.


OTOH, +1 for the above poster's point above me. ^
 
Michaelius said:
No thx but a cheap 6 core Ivy-E with disabled HT would be completly diffrent matter ;)
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Cheap 8-core Ivy-E without HT with unlocked multi and with reduced price as long as it would be used in high class MB and with restriction of no second hand sales, would be completely different matter.
 
No thanks
Enthusiast 6 core without a silly price tag.
Or 8 core if power use is low and it clocks well.
 
It is a bit tiring to see intel's continued catering to the ultra high-end market where only the well-afforded can play.

It does cost a ton to make chips of this caliber and it's unrealistic to tell a company to take a hit per chip for merely altruistic reasons...but it is within intel's power to release cheaper, many-cored chips.
 
Didn't log in to read, but why is an engineer asking a marketing question? After all, how difficult is it to release a Xeon with microcode unlocking the multi (or whatever they do)? Doesnt sound like a new engineering feat id required to accomplish. But no, I wouldn't buy a 12 core extreme prices CPU. Now my question is why have we been offered quad cores at the same price point for so long? Meager 10% bumps in IPC is all we get. Can't blame the mobile revolution when your company choses to make the enthusiast desktop a boring platform.

Just saying
 
Probably engineering depertment want to make it happen to show they can but they need to at least gather some responces that show people would buy it.
 
Ehren8879 said:
Didn't log in to read, but why is an engineer asking a marketing question?
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Marketing people are selling things, engineers and HW fans are inventing things. So why would marketing people be the driving element behind high powered high tech stuff? They can earn more money on these 1. 12 cores locked CPUs sold to server market 2. much lower end stuff that wouldn't be bough only by 10000 crazy poor people who would spend on CPU first, on theirs second pants second, and by 20000 rich who would actually want that fast CPU. And yes overclockers would buy one, but overclockers are these crazy folks that is running CPU above engineering specifications and they are only causing problems by returns.
 
Raghar said:
Marketing people are selling things, engineers and HW fans are inventing things. So why would marketing people be the driving element behind high powered high tech stuff?
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Uh, to determine if there's a market willing to buy?
 
Ehren8879 said:
Uh, to determine if there's a market willing to buy?
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I can determine there is a market for exo-atmospheric flying saucers, but no earth educated engineer is able to build them. Marketing people can't be driving force for an innovative engineering/tech based company
 
12 core processor for the price of a 3930K, I'll take one. Anything higher would be a no thanks. It's hard enough justifying the cost of a $400 MOBO and $500 CPU part. If we have to go slow to get to that price range then lets continue the trend of bumping up the high-end parts by two cores until we get there.
 
"at the price of the 12 cores Xeon" lol

The 12 core Xeon E5 v2 models start around $2300 @ official prices. I'm not sure what interesting clock speeds Intel would release those at. The 2.4GHz/3.2GHz turbo model is rated at 115W and the 2.7GHz/3.5GHz turbo model is rated at 130W. Ivy Bridge Extreme is 3.6/4GHz, and I imagine that a 12 core at that spec may have a 170W or higher TDP. Not impossible, but I imagine there's slim pickings at that bin.
 
I'll be getting a Xeon E5 2697 v2 for development anyway but would definitely consider a 12-core unlocked, overclockable Ivy-E version at the same price.

I have to imagine that market is slim though.
 
Liger88 said:
12 core processor for the price of a 3930K, I'll take one. Anything higher would be a no thanks. It's hard enough justifying the cost of a $400 MOBO and $500 CPU part. If we have to go slow to get to that price range then lets continue the trend of bumping up the high-end parts by two cores until we get there.
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You can get 200$ mobos for 2011. Let's make it 250$ for 8 dimms mobos.
Anything above that is mostly spending for the sake of spending.
 
Savoy said:
Not for 1200 bucks or some retarded amount. No thanks. What we need is an 8 core 16 thread mainstream cpu for about 400 bucks. KK Thanks Intel.
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^This.

Only thing I want to add is I want a unlocked 8 core i5 without HT/iGPU, and a unlocked 8 core/16 thread i7 without iGPU.
 
Savoy said:
What we need is an 8 core 16 thread mainstream cpu for about 400 bucks. KK Thanks Intel.
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To be honest the theory is better than the reality. My desktop is a SNB-E 8-core Xeon (E5-2687W) and it gets outperformed by the i7-3960X in most tasks - even when I'm working in Premiere Pro and After Effects. Burns at extra 20W of power in the process too.

Does well in Cinebench though.
 
Funny how people will spend tons on crossfire/sli gpus every year or 2 but rail at spending on a CPU which will not be improved much upon for years and years an the snails pace they are advancing at now.
 
Sign me up. This combined with Quad 780Tis with 12GB each (48GB mem total from the GPU) and maybe 64GB of DDR3. What else do i need to drain my bank accounts even faster. Oh right, i need that 2000W PSU, about 8 3TB HDDs and 8 1TB SSDs.

LOL anything else i missed folks
 
If you take the right tablets, you could just imagine you have better hardware.
 
^Haha nice. But in honesty, this seems like an engineer's experiment to convince one of the higher ups at the marketing and financing departments to approve a 12-core cpu production assignment. I cant see this coming to fruition. The R&D&P costs would end up in the red.
 
Speculation on very little information is unlikely to yield the true motive.
I'm waiting to see what else surfaces, until then, its best ignored.
 
I'd gladly pay the price for such a chip and would end up buying at least 3 of them, so long as they remain SMP capable. I haven't bought the 12 core Xeon yet solely due to it being locked (and clocked very low) and therefore a grossly inferior performer in single threaded applications. Being able to overclock one would allow the best of both worlds....tons of highly clocked threads that would rip through both single AND multithreaded work loads with ease.

The thing is that no new SKUs are needed to accomplish this. Simply unlock the top bin Xeon E5 and E7 chips and those who want such a chip and are willing to pay the price will and those who aren't won't. But if even a few people buy a top bin unlocked Xeon, due to it being unlocked, it'll be worth it, as those chips are the true margin builders. Xeons that are actually used in servers wouldn't be affected whatsoever, as they lack overclocking options in the BIOS. It would simply be adding a feature to the top, most profitable Xeons to make them more attractive to more people. The more attractive they are, the more chips Intel is able to sell and the more profit they make off of their most profitable chips.
 
HardLiner said:
Just curious isn't intel coming out with a 8 core haswell chip next year?
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I think that's the plan, but an unlocked 12 core CPU that's been overclocked to ~4.5GHz should be very competitive with an 8 core Haswell in single threaded applications and simply annihilate it in multi-threaded ones.
 
If its going to cost the same as the DP 2600 v2 version then it should be dual-able as well, otherwise needing less QPI links and whatever else is needed for DP, it should be a bit less money.

I would consider it, because there is not much improvement on new CPUs it would be good for a long time.
 
At most, they are going to be getting the buyers that already pay for the Extreme Edition parts. Those are expensive even for them.

Give us the 12C/24T part unlocked at $999. The price point where the previous halo products were. Don't even bother boxing it with a HSF. Now drop the price of all the other parts accordingly. Not only would you get more buyers for a 12 core part, you would get more buyers for the other products that were obscenely priced before.
 
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