Last month, the company Intel reported that the new processor shestiyaderny Gulftown will be presented. This processor will be the first Intel processor, manufactured on 32nm production methods, with six cores and HyperThreading Technology can simultaneously handle up to 12 independent data streams. Now, it was reported that the producer moved the issue processor socket, LGA-1366 and will submit it in conjunction with Lynnfield and P55, in the third quarter of this year.

Despite the fact that this processor will work with the Intel X58 chipset and will support socket LGA-1366, the company Intel, according to the source, is not going to include it in the family of Core i7. The manufacturer has not yet identified with the name of the new processor, but it clearly does not fit into the new scheme Branding Intel processors.

Characteristics of future processors remain a mystery. Now even unknown whether shestiyaderny processor socket, LGA-1366, which appears in the third quarter of this year, is a processor Gulfstown, or it will be some other 32nm model. Most likely, its price will be approximately the same range as the price of Intel Core i7 975 EE, but the manufacturer has not yet announced any pricing information about the new processor, and may well be that the price of the new model will be considerably higher, so as not to create unnecessary competition between the processors Intel.

In addition, it is unclear why all of a sudden Intel hasten the issuance of high-performance 32nm processor, if its main competitors, AMD processors, are not even trying to reach the productivity series Core i7.