Monday, January 19th 2009
Intel Planning New Budget Quad-Core CPU Lineup
The the coming months, AMD is planning to launch a series of quad-core and triple-core processors to strengthen the company's hold on the sub-$200, even sub-$150 market segment. Intel is reportedly planning a rival lineup of quad-core processors to counter AMD in the segmet. While the Core 2 Quad Q8000 series from Intel makes for its current low-end quad-core CPU lineup, the new lineup will be categorized under the Q7000 series.
Characteristics of the Q7000 series include a total L2 cache size of 2 MB (1 + 1 MB), which is half of that of the Q8000 and a sixth of that of the Q9000 series. The processors will use a narrower 800 MHz FSB and will be built on the 45nm manufacturing process. They will come with rated TDPs of 65W. The first model in this series will be the Core 2 Quad Q7500, which comes with a clock speed of 2.60 GHz. The chip will be priced under US $150, straying into AMD's budget quad-core chip territory.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
Characteristics of the Q7000 series include a total L2 cache size of 2 MB (1 + 1 MB), which is half of that of the Q8000 and a sixth of that of the Q9000 series. The processors will use a narrower 800 MHz FSB and will be built on the 45nm manufacturing process. They will come with rated TDPs of 65W. The first model in this series will be the Core 2 Quad Q7500, which comes with a clock speed of 2.60 GHz. The chip will be priced under US $150, straying into AMD's budget quad-core chip territory.
27 Comments on Intel Planning New Budget Quad-Core CPU Lineup
also, low bus + high multiplier + 45nm + low TDP = You know to what is equal :)
The pentium dual core are pretty good. They never get warm, use little power and perfoms well and costs. nothing. Quad core version of them would be perfect for HTPC or budget servers.
i want to get rid of this POS X2
@Keiran
Oh definitely, this thing would overclock like a beast!
I hope that amd comes up with something good and soon to help drive them and keep them out of bankruptcy.
edit: IMO they should be renamed to Q5000 (or even Q3000) series. Q6600 had 8MB cache already and something "higher" to have 4th of that is silly.
Edit: The E2000 series is not EOL. In fact the E2220 is part of the January price cut announcement, they don't annouce price cuts if the product is EOL.
This new series looks very promising and will definately help to keep LGA775 alive longer :)
Good lord what is AMD to do,...???? :cry:
I'd rather see them drop the price of the Q8xxx and Q9xxx to sub £150.
Low TDP = better oc
Less l2 = better oc
Add that together = U can clock the shit out of it.
That is if these don't have some sort of FSB wall, read some OC tests from E2000 series and they don't go over 300MHz bus or 3.5GHz. Hope these are different.