Sandy Bridge to Replace Core i7-930 in Early 2011
According to the details recently leaked around the web, Intel’s Core i7-930 processors should be arriving later in this quarter. The 2.8GHz quad-core CPU is believed to deliver the best performance among Intel’s mainstream processors.
But, this would change when Sandy Bridge comes in early 2011. We don’t have concrete clock speeds for now, but it should be seeing significant performance improvements over Nehalem generation.
According to Fudzilla, Sandy Bridge will be the first quad-core to get a monolithic CPU with graphics chip, while the current Clarkdale / Arrandale 32nm CPUs only feature a stitched 45nm graphics core.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
i3-930 or i7-930?
Body text and title don’t agree.
February 5th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
That is one crowded chip
February 6th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
I personally don’t see Intel pushing the SB die pictured for an enthusiast range CPU like those going into single socket LGA1366 boards. Rather it makes more sense to pushing either into Lynnfield or Clarkdale markets using LGA1156. Even more so into the latter, since they already have a GPU as a second die under the IHS.
My point is we have not seen the LGA1366 replacement SB die-shot yet.