Discussing yesterdays news about the forthcoming reduction in prices of processors core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad, we especially noted the fact of generous reduction in the price for processor core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz) - from $851 to $530. If one considers that now the processor core 2 Extreme QX6700 (2.66 GHz), which possesses the prime advantage in the form free multiplier cost $999, then present attractiveness of model core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz) can be find only after reduction in the price to $530.
In this time we foresaw the possibility of the release of processor core 2 Quad q6400 (2.13 GHz), and even studied something resembling to this engineering model. From other side, the past official plans Of intel did not alloate for processors with four core with a portion production more than 3%, and the appearance of four core processors by cost less than $500 is planned in 2008.
However, in this turbulent As reports associate in the third quarter of 2007 intel company will release processor core 2 Quad q6400 (2.13 GHz) with four core LGA 775. To the disappointment of many amateurs of technological progress, this processor will be based on the the previous 0.065 m core kentsfield, which consists of two halves, each of which has 4 mb cache in the second level. The frequency of system bus will remain as before - 1066 MHz.
The price of processor core 2 Quad q6400 (2.13 GHz) must descend lower than $450, although the precise value is unknown for the moment . In the second-half of 2007 must appear four core processor : processors yorkfield with 1333 MHz system bus, produced on 0.045 m technology; therefore the interest of many overclock amateurs can be switched on them.
intel company corrected their plan on the rates of expansion for four core processors in the next twelve months. If in the end of the present year their fraction in the assortment of the desktop products intel does not exceed 1%, then already in the first quarter of 2007 it will grow to 5%, but in the third quarter and it will completely reach 8%. We will hope that the program infrastructure up to that moment will reach the adequate degree of maturity in order to justify passage to the processors with four core. In the second-half of 2007 AMD company must present her own processors with four core on one crystal, relating to the generation K8L. This circumstance will also force Intel more actively to act at this front.