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FRONTPAGE Intel Haswell-E Processor Details Leaked

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Details of upcoming Intel processor, codenamed Haswell-E, have been leaked by VR-Zone. According to a few slides, Intel plans to release a new high-performance platform in the second half of 2014. While Intel plans to release Ivy Bridge-E later this year for the well-established X79 socket, Haswell-E will come with its own platform, codenamed Wellsburg, and the new 2011-3 socket. The all-new high-performance desktop platform is said to implement some advances geared to...
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The 55% performance gain for doubling # of cores could make sense if not all the cores can work at full speed simultaneously (e.g., due to power or heat envelope), or if you can't get enough data to all cores simultaneously. Or it could just mean that existing benchmarks and software can't fully utilize the extra cores. (Parallelization usually experiences decreasing returns as you add more threads or cores.)
 
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