Will Intel pull a "Gulftown" with IB-E?

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Remember when the Gulftown processors (The 955/965/975EE) were out and Intel pulled the 980x and the 990x out of their hats (6 core wonderfulness) to extend the life of that platform. Will Intel pull another rabbit out of their hat with the new IB-E platform? An 8-Core CPU EE/X?

Just curious...I have read some rumblings on the web that they may do this at the end of the year again.

Thanks.
 
I don't think so. I would LOVE to see some Extreme Edition Xeons in the 6 core to 12 core range so those enthusiast level dual-socket boards are relevant. Imagine overclocking two 12-core xeons with quad SLI on an EVGA SRX...
 
The board would have to be about as thick as a plywood sheet to handle enough power for 2 OC'd 12 core xeons.
 
There was rumors of an 8 core sandy e being unvieled at the same time as ivy e...
 
This would be the processor I would not be surprised if they released at years end:

http://ark.intel.com/products/64582/
Xeon E5-2687W v2 SR19V
8 3.4 GHz 2/2/2/2/3/4/5/6 8 × 256 KB 25 MB
150 W
LGA 2011 2 × 8.0 GT/s QPI Sep 2013

The above mentioned CPU would def fit that bill.
 
The Cobra said:
This would be the processor I would not be surprised if they released at years end:

http://ark.intel.com/products/64582/
Xeon E5-2687W v2 SR19V
8 3.4 GHz 2/2/2/2/3/4/5/6 8 × 256 KB 25 MB
150 W
LGA 2011 2 × 8.0 GT/s QPI Sep 2013

The above mentioned CPU would def fit that bill.
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And this would be a good CPU...if the damn thing were unlocked, the odds of which are equivalent to a snowball's chance in hell.

Why Intel doesn't unlock the top bin Xeons is beyond me. It would make no difference for Enterprise users of those chips, and those who want the absolute best and are willing to pay for it will ravenously pick them up, resulting in Intel selling more of their high margin Xeons. Ultra-Extreme users at present who want the best are forced to buy the half-assed 6 cores for 1/3 the price of the full 12 core Xeon...Intel is not only screwing these loyal users by forcing them to use an inferior product, they are screwing themselves out of $2k more revenue for each of these users. They may only sell 10k more of these chips in total, but at $3k each, it would add up quickly and is pure gravy profit.

Instead, Intel has chosen to forgo that extra profit and at the same time slap their best customers in the face...smart move Intel...:rolleyes:

They may be able to get away with it when there are no alternative, but if by some miracle AMD manages to pull a rabbit out of their hat in a few years with a competitive CPU, Intel can expect to lose a great deal of these customers.
 
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