I7 920 to be discontinued...

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...But will it be AMD? And if not, how 'cheap' will 'cheap really be in 2016?
 


My crystal ball seems to think that your first prediction is dead wrong... Maybe Motorolla, if they weren't so much in the hole, or TI... But why would they want to? But the EU? Over your govt's dead bodies. (But at the current rate, THAT might happen.)
 


PURE FUD!!!!

We all know Luke destroyed the Death Star a long time ago...
 


Hmm, everything I've read indicated Intel's yields on 45nm are excellent - surpassing their excellent 65nm yields at every stage. Granted the i7 is monolithic, but given the fact that AMD has had to sell quite a few monolithic P2 X3's, I'd bet that Intel's yields are better.

The Anandtech article didn't indicate the i920 was on the way out either - I'd think that if AT knew that, it'd be all over the Dailytech news. IMHO, these "discontinued" rumors are pure FUD until proven otherwise, about on a par with AMD discontinuing their 955 already.
 


Methinks somebody has been nipping at the chocolate liqueur again 😀
 
Current i7 news mentions the new i975 and i950, but no mention of any discontinuance of the i920:

Numerous online stores have started to sell Intel Corp.’s yet unannounced microprocessors. The move indicates that the world’s largest chipmaker is about to officially release them and improve its performance leadership in the high-end market.

The new processors are Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition (four cores, 3.33GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 8MB L3 cache, 6.40GT/s quick path interconnect bus) as well as Intel Core i7 950 (four cores, 3.06GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 8MB L3 cache, 4.80GT/s quick path interconnect bus). The new Extreme processors costs about $1100, whereas the highest-end non-Extreme processor for $600 to $650.

Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition chip that works at 3.33GHz uses newer stepping and can boast with lower power consumption and hence overclockability compared to its predecessor. It is highly likely that the Core i7-950 is also based on the same D0 processor stepping.
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Intel is making to much money from this chip to discontinue it, it's their low end money maker, do not believe this.
 
Intel could have some method to this madness, and the lynnfield does fill the gaps perfectly. I don't think they expected the 920 to be such a monster and take over 90% of all I7 sales, the 940 just might come down in price a bit as they draw new lines in the sand...
 
Annoying news, if true. This will mean we're forced into a decision to go with the mainstream socket, and be limited to mainstream CPUs, or go with the performance socket, and potentially have to pay out the ass later down the road when Intel only releases overpriced extreme chips for it.

Without a crystal ball to see whether the i7's bandwidth advantages will pan out into superior performance down the road... or whether Intel will release worthwhile mainstream chips 2 years from now... or how overpriced the Socket LGA1366 chips will be...

I'd almost rather risk going with i5's socket LGA 1156, since I have a greater fear of having to dish out $700-1000 for a CPU down the road, than there not being any decent mainstream CPUs available. Suppose, if I make the wrong decision, at least I didn't spend as much on the mobo and such, while with 1366 the risk is higher right along with the part costs.
 
i don't understand, ditching a big seller. it's like McDonald's ditching the Big Mac or Burger King ditching the Double Whopper with Cheese or Rubio's ditching fish taco's. i just don't get it.
 
I agree. Theres no use for anything more than quad unless your running a server anyways,.
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That is not true at all.
Nowadays this tech is wellcomed and its expected mobile brothers have been waited for months already
it seems that not many people knows about yet, but i7 and its 1366 socket has been the base for the first real-world stable workstations for musicians latency-wise.

Before i7, even with good Core 2 duos everything (soft & hardware options) has to be very carefully tweaked to avoid glitches and pops latency induced, particularly at live configurations.

There are different latency measures for this use here

You see, for any musician wanting to carry a laptop (not even an actual Latitude E6400 cuts it) + midi controllers + soundcard to a giig and then to be able to securely perform or record it -error free-, this tech is a dream that is being pushed into the future already since Intel's last year decision to delay the i7 tech into laptops... and now the rumour comes that i7 bandwith (and its correspondendt lower latencies for multitasking ) are going to be ditched off for i5... 😱

Terrible news indeed (for a large but segmented market) if they come to be true.
Listen Intel, dell & all, -if you are listening- some of us are not buying because your lappies are yet not clearly delivering and i7's promise has to be mobile for that to happen...Faster duos and embeded what not 32 45 extras will not deliver what we aim for... bandwith.

The moment that it comes out, reasonably costing (920-940 range), I'd personally (and pbbly many more users) will spread the news on musician, Djs, forums. So far the reliable tool is not out, hence you cant measure its sales..
 
i5 will have the lower latency and higher bandwidth of i7. It will have even lower PCI-E latency due to the on die PCI-E controller, and the memory controller is identical except that it only has 2 channels instead of three (and I seriously doubt if any musical stuff would stutter with 15-18GB/sec of bandwidth, but not with 25). Basically, it should be just as good as i7 for that application.
 



hmmmm..... your signature line says:

"Silting your wrist lowers blood pressure, maybe you should try it?"


Since I have decided to become an advocate for spelling and grammar on the Internet, I have noticed that at least 1/2 of all people on the Internet can't "speel", while grammar is rilly, rilly bad. So, I noticed this, but it made me wonder: how do you "Silt" your wrist? Do you submerge it in a slow-flowing river for a few days until it is covered in silt, or ????

Since I need to lower my blood pressure, I am most anxious to find out how this works!

Or, maybe it would be better if I mind my own business and just assume that "your" doing "your" best? That may lower my blood pressure even more than "silting my wrist"?

Am I the only person who knows how to turn on the spell checkers in Windows? It "rilly" isn't that hawrd too dew....
 

So, as a musician, you seem to be saying, you dont like the sound of this?
 



my D0 i7 920 OCed to 4 Ghz begs to differ....

The true test of the i5 or i3 is how good do they OC, if they can hit at least 4.0~4.2 with a nice after market hsf (i have the true) or 3.5~3.8 with stock then they are just as good as the i7s (if they have the same perf/clock, they should if its the same core tech...), the 6 GB of LV ram is making me upgrade to win 7 64 RC1, and that wasn't what I was hoping for... while it was a more pleasant ride than the vista test I did with just hot off the shelf version (Office 2k3 crash, games instability, printer driver went nuts and UAC nagging me when at the time, it wasn't clear on how to nuke that off the planet).

At least I can claim I rode out the beta for win 7 that is vista tho
 
Itll be interesting on the 920, as its been the driving force of the 1366, and how well it competes with comparable i5s, if as you say, and were all wondering, just how well i5s oc.
If they end up ocing at least as well as i7s, this will hurt the i7 sales overall, and keep them in a small niche IMHO. If this happens, what Intel does to decide on keeping the 920, or moving the other prices downwards on the newer i7s, who knows, since therell be a small definition of perf seen on DT, other than the PCI restrictions.
Intels problem is, how will they seperate a difference, and thereby justify the i7s extra costs?
 
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