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If you’ve found that quad-core processors simply aren’t robust enough for you, then here is a bit of good news. PC Advisor is reporting that Intel’s 32nm 6-core processors will be launching in the first half of this year. This processors will be built on Intel’s Westmere architecture, which means power savings compared to older 45nm products, and, of course, six cores instead of the four that we tend to see these days. The desktop variety of the 6-core processors will be Gulftown, which will be sold as a high-end variant of the Core i7 line.
These won’t be Intel’s first six-cored processors though, those were Intel’s 45nm “Dunnington” processors from the server-focused Xeon line.
PC Advisor went on to report that in addition to the extra cores the new Westmere processors will be getting an updated instruction set and that they will feature the advanced power management tools that Intel has been rolling out lately, which enable the processors to limit the power consumed by idle cores when performing tasks that can’t take advantage of all of them.
