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Unlike Apple, Intel is having a hard time keeping secrets with regards to many of its upcoming details and now the release dates of its upcoming Haswell based CPUs appears to have leaked. The first CPUs are set to arrive in March of next year, with the initial lot said to be quad-core only mobile parts with what is currently known as GT3 graphics.
In April more quad-core models are set to follow, this time around the first desktop models will arrive, but with slower GT2 graphics. The ULT or ultrabook CPUs are said to launch sometime in June to August, although we'd expect them to be at least announced around Computex time next year, much in the same way as Intel announced the Ivy Bridge ULT processors. The ULT models will just as the current models be dual-core processors, although Intel is apparently going to offer single and dual-channel memory controller equipped SKUs, all in the name of saving power.
We should also point out that some of the ULT models will be using a new System-on-a-Chip or SoC packaging where the CPU, graphics and chipset will be on a single package. In other words, there won't be any chipset on the Ultrabook motherboard, which is meant to be yet another move from Intel to save PCB space so we can get even thinner and lighter notebooks. The ULT models should come with various graphics options this time around which is a first for this market segment, as well as a TDP of 15W or less.
For those wanting Xeon branded CPU's, Intel will of course move its E3 Xeon family to the Haswell architecture as well and rumours has it that the new models will simply be known as the Xeon E3-1200 v3. On the higher-end of things, i.e. the LGA-2011 platform replacement, we should expect to see Xeon chips that utilizes DDR4 memory and this should be the first platform that takes advantage of this new memory technology, with desktops not expected to follow until at least 2014.
Image courtesy of ChipHell
Keep in mind that Haswell will not be backwards compatible with Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge, as Intel is once more changing its CPU socket, this time we're losing a whole five pins and the new socket is known as LG-1150. Besides models with GT1, GT2 and GT3 graphics, we should see improvements to overall CPU performance at a much higher magnitude than we did with Ivy Bridge, AVX 2.0 instructions, an integrated power regulator and most important to many of us - if Intel delivers – massive improvements with regards to overclocking.
As to what Apple will take advantage of is anyone's guess at this point in time, but according to publications such as Anandtech, Apple has been one of the driving forces behind Intel's much improved graphics engine. As such we would expect that Apple will primarily use the GT3 equipped processors and we have a feeling that Apple is also looking at utilizing the SoC models in the MacBook Air range of notebooks. One concern here for the Hackintosh community is if Apple decides to shun support for the GT2 graphics parts, as it means we'd be left to use discrete graphics only.
Source: CPU World
In April more quad-core models are set to follow, this time around the first desktop models will arrive, but with slower GT2 graphics. The ULT or ultrabook CPUs are said to launch sometime in June to August, although we'd expect them to be at least announced around Computex time next year, much in the same way as Intel announced the Ivy Bridge ULT processors. The ULT models will just as the current models be dual-core processors, although Intel is apparently going to offer single and dual-channel memory controller equipped SKUs, all in the name of saving power.
We should also point out that some of the ULT models will be using a new System-on-a-Chip or SoC packaging where the CPU, graphics and chipset will be on a single package. In other words, there won't be any chipset on the Ultrabook motherboard, which is meant to be yet another move from Intel to save PCB space so we can get even thinner and lighter notebooks. The ULT models should come with various graphics options this time around which is a first for this market segment, as well as a TDP of 15W or less.
For those wanting Xeon branded CPU's, Intel will of course move its E3 Xeon family to the Haswell architecture as well and rumours has it that the new models will simply be known as the Xeon E3-1200 v3. On the higher-end of things, i.e. the LGA-2011 platform replacement, we should expect to see Xeon chips that utilizes DDR4 memory and this should be the first platform that takes advantage of this new memory technology, with desktops not expected to follow until at least 2014.
Image courtesy of ChipHell
Keep in mind that Haswell will not be backwards compatible with Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge, as Intel is once more changing its CPU socket, this time we're losing a whole five pins and the new socket is known as LG-1150. Besides models with GT1, GT2 and GT3 graphics, we should see improvements to overall CPU performance at a much higher magnitude than we did with Ivy Bridge, AVX 2.0 instructions, an integrated power regulator and most important to many of us - if Intel delivers – massive improvements with regards to overclocking.
As to what Apple will take advantage of is anyone's guess at this point in time, but according to publications such as Anandtech, Apple has been one of the driving forces behind Intel's much improved graphics engine. As such we would expect that Apple will primarily use the GT3 equipped processors and we have a feeling that Apple is also looking at utilizing the SoC models in the MacBook Air range of notebooks. One concern here for the Hackintosh community is if Apple decides to shun support for the GT2 graphics parts, as it means we'd be left to use discrete graphics only.
Source: CPU World
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