Intel reported that its 4- core servers processors clovertown will obtain new stepping core B3 it will replace the current G0.
G0 will bring some new possibilities to processor , including the decreased energy consumption. Passage on new stepping will affect the processors models with frequency 1,6-2,6 GHz (X5355, E5345, E5335, L5320 and E5310), and also dual core versions clovertown.
As is known, passage on new stepping is usually caused by the need for the introduction of some modifications and changes.
Besides the lowered energy consumption, those processor will obtain the improved support to the technology of virtualization due to the mechanism virtualized task priority register (TPR) of the programmed controller advanced programmable interrupt controller (APIC).
As usually, new stepping has a new code CPUID B3 code 06F7 ( G0 has the code 06FB ). The deliveries of updated processors versions will begin on 4 October. we hope to see some new overclocking capability.