Core 2 Quadro?

[Max_87]

Intel quad-core Kentsfield to be named Core 2 Quadro, first model expected in November

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Monica Chen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DigiTimes.com [Tuesday 19 September 2006]

Intel is expected by the end of this month to officially name its Kentsfield quad-core desktop processor as the "Core 2 Quadro," with the first model to be an Extreme version, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, which will be available starting in mid-November, according to sources at leading Taiwan motherboard makers.

The QX6700, which will be clocked at 2.66 GHz, will target the high-end gaming market as well as to counter AMD's fourth quarter introduction of its Socket-AM2 Athlon 64 FX-64 CPU (3.0 GHz core speed, 2x1MB L2 cache), the sources noted.

Additionally, Intel will launch a new 65nm quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Quadro Q6600, in the first quarter of 2007, ahead of AMD's planned launch of server-use quad-core Deerhound in 2007 and desktop quad-core Greyhound in 2008, said the sources.

The Socket-775 Q6600 CPU will have a core speed of 2.4 GHz, a built-in 2x4MB L2 cache and support a 1066 MHz FSB (front side bus), plus Enhanced Intel Speedstep technology, Intel Virtualization and Execute Disable Bit functionalities, the sources indicated.

The quad-core CPUs can be paired with either Intel's high-end 975X or mainstream P965 chipsets, although a minor change in the design of the power-supply module on P965-based motherboards is required, the sources pointed out.

Intel Taiwan declined to comment on products that have not been released.

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Ma...pages=A2&seq=2

NVIDIA doesn't mind?

[Papercut]

Har har har
Maybe they'll partner up and start a marketing campaign promoting "Quadro + Quadro"

[Trinity]

Originally Posted by Papercut

Har har har
Maybe they'll partner up and start a marketing campaign promoting "Quadro + Quadro"

Yeah,,, Or maybe Quadro squared.

[ZuePhok]

what can they do? fxck wiht intel? tthey have just lost AMD

[empire23]

I see the Quadro as just another smithfield job, since they're just sticking 2 dies on the same package and time division multiplexing the pins by using the bus control CLS via the Northbridge. Well, to me it's nothing more than sticking in 2 Core2Duos onto one packaging.

What interests me is how fast intel has moved their product this time around. For me it raises a few questions.

- Since the tape out was so fast on this one instead of using an expanded arbitrator bus, they must be devoting their time on something bigger. Using smaller coverjobs like Kentsfield to fix something bigger while they still have the advantage over AMD (dont' bring out the big guns when they don't need them)

- Kentsfield's silicon is incredible in a way that it can hit the speeds it cans without usings fancy logic or re-placement of units to optimize dataflow. Which means, that 90 percent of the Intel boys must be doing something interesting instead, because Silicon tech is usually implemented on older designs before rolled out for big guns.

I smell a giant Hiroshima in Intel's labs.

[PowerSlide]

in these time cant mind so much