According to news and rumor site Fudzilla, socket 1366 owners won’t have to wait too terribly long before being able to step up to six cores, though at $999, the flagship chip won’t come cheap.
Fudzilla says Intel will start shipping its upcoming Core i7 980X in March, which will be Intel’s first six-core part developed in 32nm Westmere architecture. It will sport the same 3.33GHz frequency as the quad-core Core i7 975, as well as the same Turbo clock. And once again, official triple-channel memory support will be limited to 1066MHz.
Other specs include 12MB of cache, 6.4GB/s QPI, 12 threads via Hyperthreading, and a 130W TDP.
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