Next Mac Pro is a dead-end

[Spikeanator6982]

Spikenator's drinks are spiked? 😛...haha, I'm not the only one who can't remember how to spell all those silly code names Intel has for CPU's...reefering 😉.

well..they better not be, I'm 17. 😀 I'm just a person who can't spell very well. But give me a math or science problem and I can get it done.

and according to dictionary.com..its referring, not my reffering or your reefering. 🙂

 

[cube]

But you're assuming there will be a market for 8-cores on a single chip by then, and it will come by '09? Somehow I doubt the die size/heat dissipation for 8-core on the chip will materialize until 2010, with <32nm process, just my guess.

No. It's Nehalem. 4-core in 2008, 8-core in 2009. Native.

For 2010 they have a 32-core project, Keifer.

 

[Umbongo]

But you're assuming there will be a market for 8-cores on a single chip by then, and it will come by '09? Somehow I doubt the die size/heat dissipation for 8-core on the chip will materialize until 2010, with <32nm process, just my guess.

There will always be a market for more cores, especially if Intel are offering the processors at similar pricing levels to older processors.

"Intel announced that in its largest configuration, Nehalem (2H 2008, 45nm) will feature 8 cores on a single die, each core supporting 2 threads per core (welcome back Hyper Threading) for a total of 16 threads per physical chip."

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3101&p=2

There does seem to be a little confusion as towhether 8 core will be 2008 at release or 2009, as I've stated many times on here, probably has more to do with what AMD can compete with rather than Intel struggling to get it out.

 

[grovertdog]

reads fine to me...

How in the world can anyone read this?

Or, more accurately, How-read this?

and... I even remember (and owned) the dual Celeron Mobo he references. Brought a smile to my face, hadn't thought about that system in years.

 

[twoodcc]

No. It's Nehalem. 4-core in 2008, 8-core in 2009. Native.

For 2010 they have a 32-core project, Keifer.

sounds good to me. i'll keep my current 4-core mac pro til the 32-core comes out 😀