What is Stoakley-Seaburg and when....?

[Gloor]

I keep reading about this Stoakley-Seaburg and I had the impression that its a name for a new motherboard that is going to be released by Apple. I am not sure and I would like someone to explain me why is it a big deal, when is it going to be released and what are the advantages? Thank you guys

 

[Umbongo]

I keep reading about this Stoakley-Seaburg and I had the impression that its a name for a new motherboard that is going to be released by Apple. I am not sure and I would like someone to explain me why is it a big deal, when is it going to be released and what are the advantages? Thank you guys

Stoakley is the code name for the next Intel workstation platform. Seaburg is the chipset.

So I've been looking at some articles that emerged over the past few weeks in relation to Stoakley and Seaburg, and still there seems to be bits and pieces in various articles that go against each other. My take on reading them though is that the following are likely:

Harpertown is the codename for Penryn based Quad core Xeon processors.
no mention of dual core, perhaps they are no more at the high end, which adds weight to ideas that Apple would begin only offering 8 core systems as it may be the only choice several months from now.

Companies are producing DDR2 800MHz FB-DIMMs, Seaburg will feature dual 1600Mhz FSB
Don't read this as a guaranteed replacement for current FB-DIMMs

PCI-E v2.0 will be present
Intel have been using unreleased Nvidia and ATI GPUs while showing off Stoakley

SLI may be present
The platform features dual PCI-E 2 sockets, however Nvidia have apparently not licensed this technology to Intel (yet), however Nvidia have licensed from Intel what seem to be enough things to make their own High end dual socket, dual 1600MHz FSB boards. Though there are some hints that they may go for the gamer market, and not use FB-DIMMS, I can't see Apple using such a thing, or probably caring much about having SLI on Mac Pros

Tyan will have a Seaburg motherboard for sale in November
For all the talk of Q3, Q4, late 2007, early 2008, later in the year, that has been around for so long now, this is the first definative month for an available product I've seen.