Intel's quad-core "Clovertown" is released in the first half of 2007

[liqnit]

It looks like Intel is going to be the first with QuadCore working CPUs.
unless AMD is going to show somthing very soon

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1976372,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Speaking at a conference June 13 in New York hosted by analyst firm Bear Stearns Security, Dileep Bhandarkar, architect at large for Intel, in Santa Clara, said that when Intel's quad-core "Clovertown" is released in the first half of 2007, it will be a single package of two dual-core chips, and that the chips will not have the memory controller integrated into the chip.

[Kougar]

Yeah :(

The desktop version will be Kentsfield, and the expected launch is in late January of '07. Since this will become a Extreme Edition processor it should (hopefully) crunch the prices even further downloads...

[Gray]

O that will probably have the usual $1000. opening price.
My god, with games that are written dual threaded that and ATI's R600 DX 10 chip (X4) Holey Smokes, there is more power in there then you can shake a stick at. :)

I can't believe how good things are getting and how fast it is happening.

[Kougar]

I agree! It's amazing how the performance jumped lately (And I'm including Conroe here).

I mean, $1,000 for a CPU with a unlocked multiplier was always a little nuts to me (Or just insane in Prescott's case)... but Kentsfied for $1,000? I'd have to see it to believe it, because with the 4x Conroe cores with unlocked multipliers on a already mature uArch yield... that almost seems like a fair price :mrgreen:

[liqnit]

i think 1000$ for the first batch of Quad core but about 2 months later i guess we will see some Quads starts at 300$
and let's not forget that AMD is yet to say say somthing about it...

[mousiness]

all i have to say is WHAT DID I SAY GUYS lol, hahaha Intel is going to own and rule the pc world again and hopefully once and for all even though that wont happen ever ever ever lol

[Kougar]

i think 1000$ for the first batch of Quad core but about 2 months later i guess we will see some Quads starts at 300$
and let's not forget that AMD is yet to say say somthing about it...

I can't see Quad's coming in near that price point for a long time yet... The cost of having 2 complex dies on one wafer for a total of four cores would be fairly high when you consider how many failed or "lesser-grade" chips they have to produce and throw away/binr down just to get 4x high-grade working cores on a single package. Maybe when 45nm quad-cores roll in prices will reach or drop a little below $300 is what I'm currently betting...

Also AMD is still at a massive production cost disadvantage to Intel, becuase they are using both 300mm and 200mm wafers for 90nm dies. By the time they finally fully convert over to 300mm wafers the playing field will already be at a 45nm fab process... Intel can play the price war game because no matter how much it will hurt their bottom line, it'll really hurt AMD's own bottom line much more...

Here is a rather rough roadmap I finally threw together after getting annoyed at the old info mixed with the new that's floating around. I'm not to confident about my source for the very last comment as all the "???s" would indicate, but otherwise everything else was taken from Anandtech's own website or their news site Dailytech.com.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/258/roadmap20bq.png

[mousiness]

[QUOTE=Kougar]Also AMD is still at a massive production cost disadvantage to Intel, becuase they are using both 300mm and 200mm wafers for 90nm dies. By the time they finally fully convert over to 300mm wafers the playing field will already be at a 45nm fab process... Intel can play the price war game because no matter how much it will hurt their bottom line, it'll really hurt AMD's own bottom line much more... [QUOTE=Kougar]

Exactly by the time AMD will fully convert to the production process that intel has now intel will be already making even smaller dies and wafers, BUT AMD has always been behind intel in the manufacturing process and clock speed and AMD has even then owned intel in performance, but if AMD doesnt do anything drastic to rival intel's next generation chips AMD will be way behind technology-wise and it will also degrade the company's already deteriorating reputation with the average-joe nonetheless enthusiasts when conroe is out, hehehe AMD is gonna die

[liqnit]

Kougar -thanks for the planned road map
i was thinkg of that price while assuming that the process will cost a lot less then now

[Kougar]

Well, if the real estate on AMD's wafers is so pricey that they are no longer officially selling 2x1mb L2 cache AM2 processors, then using twice the cache real estate to make a single quad-core processor won't be very appealing, or will be very expensive for awhile...