Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Intel: New Conroe Processors for Q3 2006

intel logoIntel is counting down to the launch of its next-gen desktop CPU: Conroe will begin to ship to system builders in Q2 of this year with the official introduction to follow in late Q3. Details are already leaking out of Santa Clara - the chip will carry the sequence numbers E4000 and E6000 and arrive in six versions with clock speeds of up to 2.66 GHz. [TG Daily]

Intel will be offering six versions of the Conroe processor at launch:

  • E6700: 2.66 GHz / FSB 1066/ 4 MB shared L2 cache
  • E6600: 2.40 GHz / FSB 1066/ 4 MB shared L2 cache
  • E6400: 2.13 GHz / FSB 1066/ 2 MB shared L2 cache
  • E6300: 1.86 GHz / FSB 1066/ 2 MB shared L2 cache
  • E4200: 1.60 GHz / FSB 800/ 2 MB shared L2 cache
  • Conroe Extreme Edition (XE): Specifications unknown


It would be interesting to see how the upcoming processors from Intel and AMD would perform against each other, and also compared to their current processor lineup.

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