Intel Gulftown to be launched as Core i7

December 16th, 2009 Posted in CPUs

Intel will adopt the Core i7 brand identifier to sell Gulftown, the six core processor based on the Nehalem architecture. Chinese website PCOnline shows a leaked Intel slide that clearly describes a Core i7 980X processor as one built on a 32nm process and based on the lga1366 chipset. Clocked at 3.33 GHz, on march 2010 this chip will replace Intel current flagship desktop processor, the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, at the very same price of US $999. The Gulftown core features 6 processing cores with 12 threads thanks to HyperThreading Technology, triple channel DDR3 1066 MHz memory with its integrated memory controller, 6.4 GT/s QPI link, 12 MB of L3 cache, compatibility to motherboards that support the current Core i7 9xx processors, and 130W TDP.