Intel's 32nm Clarkdale CPUs moved up to Q4, a full year ahead of AMD?

It's just a rumor, but DigiTimes has pretty decent sources within Taiwan's motherboard industry. So what was a Q1 2010 mass production launch of Clarkdale CPUs is now rumored to be coming in Q4, notable as the first Intel CPU to use its new 32nm process technology with an integrated memory controller and graphics core built on a 45nm process. This jibes with what DailyTECH and others were reporting back in Feburary. DigiTimes adds that Intel expects Clarkdale CPUs to account for 10% of its total desktop CPU shipments in Q4 rising to 20% in Q1 2010. That means we should see the chips well before the holiday shopping season (near the October 22nd launch of Windows 7 makes sense) if true. As for AMD, well, last we heard they're still looking to "ramp up" production in the middle of 2010 with mass production capabilities arriving around Q4. Yeah, we know.

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[(Unverified) Posted Jun 29th 2009 9:58PM]

I thought they had a 6 core cpu in the works, guess that rumor was false?

[sjchmura Posted Jun 30th 2009 9:27AM]

As someone who uses computers for heavy scientific computational tasks, media center, and of course playing Crysis/Left for Dead etc, I really really wonder what this will gain over the i7. The bottlenecks are GPU and i/o related along with software optimization to use 4-8 threads.

These new chips are incredible for $225. I just feel like we need to wait for the rest of the components to be cheaper, faster so the system is more balanced. Once this happens developers may use the cores effectively.