Recent days are literally filled with news about the transfer of different announcements for later periods. Thus, for instance NVIDIA no longer hurries to pass to the new 40 NM technical processes in the second quarter, moreover, the production of the future high end chip can be completely canceled.
Today, associate reported that Intel plans to delay the announcement periods of LGA 1156 platform from the middle of summer to the end of September. Formally, the announcement will take place in the third quarter in this year, but products will be available only during October : in the beginning of the fourth quarter.
Actually, core i5 processors , also known as Lynnfield, will appear almost one year later Core i7. In the opinion of associate, the basic reason for the announcement delay is the high cost of DDR- 3 memory, which actually are 2.5-3 times higher than cost of DDR-2 module with analogous volume.
LGA 1156 Processors, will be equipped with the built-in memory controller and will work only with DDR- 3 memory. Possibly, the new AMD platform , which will appear during February and will use DDR- 3 memory, will expect the same popularity problems . Although, in contrast to Lynnfield, the new AMD processors , intended for Socket AM3 can work also with DDR-2 memory but only in old motherboards ( Socket AM2 and AM2+ ). Related Products :
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