Prior to the issuance of shestiyadernogo processor Intel Gulftown have at least one year, but rumors of its vengeance excite the Internet. Not so long ago, in a network there the results of tests of the engineering sample processor, and is already known to many of its technical characteristics. To begin with, the Gulftown will be the first high-performance processor, made on 32nm production methods HKMG second generation. The first 32nm processors, Intel, released in mass production, will be dual-core models, which will be sold together with a much larger line 45nm processors. Then, Gulftown has six cores handling with support for HyperThreading, which allows to use 12 logical processors. Thanks TurboBoost future high-performance processor can disable inactive nuclei and disperse active, thus increasing the productivity of single applications and applications with a small number of flows, while reducing power consumption.

In addition, already aware of the existence of embedded memory controller, which Gulftown able to work with memory DDR3-1066. Modern processors Core i7 work with RAM of the same standard, but can support a higher frequency. Processors Gulftown chipsets compatible with X58, support socket LGA 1366 and have the same power as the Core i7 series processors 900, namely 130Vt. That is, the existing motherboards that support processors Core i7, is technically capable of working with Gulftown. This processor is designed exclusively for the upper segment (enthusiast), his release is scheduled for the second quarter of 2010.