14 DAY TRIAL // After many rumors and suppositions have claimed that Intel has postponed the launch of its first high-performance processors based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture to Q1 of 2012, a new report comes to suggest that the Santa Clara chip giant is thinking about a November launch for these chips.
This information was provided by the Donanim Haber website, which entered into the possession of an Intel document placing the launch of this platform in November of this year.
The leaked slide mentions the 46th and 47th weeks of 2011, which span from November 14 to November 27.
A definitive release date wasn't provided, but from the info that is available at this point in time, we know that Intel plans to introduce three new processors, all of them belonging to the Core i7 product line.
The most powerful of these chips is called the Core i7-3960X, the X at the end of its designation informing us that it belongs in the company's Extreme Edition line.
This Intel CPU packs six processing cores with HyperThreading support that have a base frequency of 3.30GHz and a maximum clock speed of 3.9GHz, which are backed by 15MB of Level 3 cache memory.
Next up, is the Core i7-3930K, which also includes six processing cores with Hyper-Threading support, but has a base operating clock of 3.2GHz, while the maximum frequency in Turbo mode is set at 3.80GHz.
Unlike its older brother, the Intel Core i7-3930K sports only 12MB of Level 3 cache memory.
Finally, the last chip to be released is the Core i7-3820, with 4 cores, 8 threads, 10 MB of L3 cache, a nominal clock speed of 3.60 GHz and a maximum Turbo speed of 3.90 GHz. This is the only Sandy bridge-E processors to come with a locked multiplier.
All the processors sport a quad-channel DDR3 memory controller that can officially support memory speeds up to 1333MHz.
Together with its first processors based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture, Intel will also introduce the X79 Express chipset and two motherboards that are based on this PCH, the DX79SI, and DX79TO.
