Intel Extreme Bloomfield: surprise to extreme price
Pleasant news for those who are prepared to spend most powerful 4 - nuclear processors Intel Extreme series directly in the first days of their appearance in retail: according to rumours from the circles of Taiwan’s manufacturers of motherboards, in the further promotion of multicore chips Intel intends to revert to the previous pattern formation Masthead price of the model.
It is expected that 4 - nuclear flagship series processor Intel Extreme - 3,2 GHz chip with the kernel Bloomfield (microarchitecture Nehalem), in bulk shipments of thousands of pieces will be supplied at a price of $ 999, which is $ 500 cheaper than the current leader of Core 2 Extreme QX9770, delivered at a price of $ 1499. If you recall, it was 1000 - the dollar price level has been traditional for senior Extreme series models and only recently replaced him in 1500 - the dollar.
Also reported that in addition to the 3.2 series leader, Extreme, Intel will present a 2.93 GHz version with the wholesale price of $ 562 and 2.66 GHz version with the wholesale price of $ 284. Separately, it must be noted that all three new items will work only with the motherboard-based chipset X58, supports the new processor socket LGA 1366.
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