14 DAY TRIAL // Intel plans to go for the 45 nanometer fabrication process and the entire line of central processing units made by this company will be switched over to this new manufacturing technology, including the processors that are intended to be used in a server environment. Among those server aimed processors there are the ones that will be available shortly under the Harpetown codename that are due to hit the market in November.
The Harpertown processing units will be socket 771 compatible, the very same socket that Intel now uses for its range of server and workstation products. The server processors will come with 12 Stock Keeping Units, SKUs for short, and four of them will use the new and faster 1600MHz frontside bus. The fastest Harpertown will operate at 3.2GHz, with a 1600MHz frontside bus, while using a 12MB of L2 cache memory. Its name will be X5482 and it should make it to the November launch too.
Another lower operating speed server processing unit will also be available and it will be named X5472, that will come with a frequency of 3.0GHz, while using the same frontside bus and cache settings as the X5482. This central processing unit will also come with a TDP rating of 120W, so users may expect the 3.2GHz version to have an even higher rating. An E model will also be available under the designation of E5472 that will come with an operating speed of 3.0GHz and the same general specifications. The slowest server intended processing unit due to come out in November is the 2.8GHz X5462 Yorkfield based CPU that too uses the 1600MHz frontside bus and the 12MB of cache memory.
On the desktop side of the fence Intel has a few surprises too for the 12th of November scheduled processors launch, as it prepares the Yorkfield based DT C2QXEE model that will be based on a quad core architecture while operating at 3.2GHz. This processor too will use the 1600Mhz frontside bus while housing 12MB of cache memory. The DT C2QXEE is going to be available between November and February, when it will most likely be replaced by a new and faster revision.
Apart from the 1600MHz frontside bus using central processing units, Intel will also launch a 3.0GHz processor that comes with a 1333MHz FSB and is branded under the DT C2QXE designation. Using the 775 socket, this unit will implement the quad core architecture and it will most probably be compatible with the P35 and X38 mainboard chipsets.