Intel prepares to launch in 2014 from Haswell-E with 8 physical cores and 16 threads of native processing of 3 GHz

First sign of engineering of the

Intel prepares to launch in 2014 from Haswell-E, the first processors of the firm for the consumer sector with 8 physical cores and 16 threads of native processing.

Intel already has the consumer market more powerful processors in the LGA 2011 but still intends to raise with the new Haswell-E, which has been leaked the first sign of engineering.

Development for the enthusiast market compatible with the current socket LGA 2011 although if you want to take advantage of its full potential, you will have to change the motherboard in the same way, since it will come with new chipset X 99 (codename Wellsburg), offering six port USB 3.0 and ten ports SATA-III (6 Gbps) and major news: support for quad channel memory of new generation DDR4 and motherboards with three sockets.

The assigned TPD will be located at 140 Watts and the cache will increase up to 20 Mbytes in the models 'Extreme' most advanced with 8 cores and 16 threads of native processing.

With variants 'X' and 'K' bound to market enthusiast, to big gamers on PC, lovers of overclocking or semi-professional use of creative music, audio or video content. Intel Haswell-E would be available next year. Price we don't know but think the $1,000 barrier
Intel Haswell-E, 8 physical cores 3 GHz