Intel company intends to present 32 nm six-core processors gulftown not earlier than the second quarter following year, but even now engineering models are actively used for the demonstration of possibilities of both six cores with hyper-Threading support and 32 nm technical process. The design concept LGA 1366 will allow gulftown processors to work in the existing motherboard on base of chipset Intel x58 after Bios updates.
As reports associate with the reference to its own sources, apple company can begin sales of gulftown processors in the composition of updated computer mac pro already in the first quarter 2010. Thus, apple users will obtain access to 32 nm six-core processor Intel earlier than other users.
The updated apple mac pro systems will also obtain net controllers with the support to the speed of 10 Gbit/s and possibility of work with 8 and 16 GB memory slot. The total memory volume in this case grows to 128 Gb. Let us recall that westmere series from Intel company will not propose four core processors; therefore, for those desiring to be introduced to 32 nm processor Intel first generation selection will be limited to dual core clarkdale and six-core gulftown. The first 32 nm processors with four cores will appear already within sandy bridge architectures , not earlier than the end of 2010.