New Intel chips out

On Sep 27, 3:14*am, (Nate Edel) wrote:

i7 920 is already being phased out, although as far as I know the higher-end
9xx models are all on the roadmap for a while longer.

I thought it was 940 that was disappearing right away. More
confusion.

Vendors seem less desperate to sell 920 systems cheap, for whatever
that says.

AFAIK, the 8-core chips will be socket 1366 and triple-channel memory, and
the additional bandwidth may well be a bigger deal for those. *I'm not sure
if a desktop 8-core is in the short term cards though (at least as an
Extreme Edition) or if it will only be sold as Xeons to begin with.

Depends on who you are. 9xx surprised me. Intel for once stopped
scrimping on memory bandwidth. Guess they decided that was a mistake.

Robert.