Yesterday associates reported that the eight core processors prepared for announcements in the middle of following year will be based on the growing westmere-EX architecture. Expansion of the following sandy bridge architecture in the desktop segment will start in the first quarter of 2011. And only in the second half-year will appear the server processors generation sandy bridge, characterized by the four-channel memory controller. The number of supported by this platform (Romley-EP) PCI express lines will be increased from 20 to 40 pieces. Moreover, the discussion can deal already with the interface PCI express 3.0.
Associate reports that in the third quarter 2011 the platform LGA 1366 will be replaced by its successor. We deal here not only with the replacement of processors and chipset, but also the appearance of new design concept. There are no details about it as yet,but for this design concept is selected the arbitrary symbol socket R.
The processors, which will replace Bloomsfield and Gulftown, will obtain up to 20 mb cache in the third level, eight cores and the four-channel memory controller with DDR-3 support. Each channel will have only one DIMM; therefore, their quantity on the motherboard will not also exceed four pieces. Support to hyper-Threading technology will convert eight physical core into sixteen virtual. The owners of LGA 1366 systems can sleep quietly to autumn of the following year.