"Leak" de Processador?! Intel’s Conroe Acquired via Ebay Auction.

Um sujeito vendeu no EBay um processador da Intel que vai ser lançando apenas em Julho.





Intel’s Conroe Acquired via Ebay Auction.

First Conroe Processors “Leak Ahead” in Malaysia

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20060402235626.html



Category: CPU



by Anton Shilov



[ 04/02/2006 | 11:56 PM ]



An anonymous seller from the eBay auctions has sold an engineering sample of Intel code-named Conroe processor, which, according to certain sources, should be officially released only in July, this year. It is unclear who could be the first buyer of a processor, which is not officially supported by available mainboards.



The chip that was sold by the seller who called himself sciences_art and was located in Malaysia, operated at 1.86GHz clock-speed, 1066MHz processor system bus and contained 2MB of unified L2 cache. The processors code-named Conroe will be supported by mainboards based on Intel 965 and Intel 963 chipsets as well as future versions of motherboards powered by Intel 975X core-logic. Currently available mainboards are not projected to support the Conroe.



The Conroe E6300 chip, which official price in 1000-unit quantities is expected to be around $210, was finally sold for $600, probably to a computer enthusiast seeking for an opportunity to “play” with the forthcoming chip ahead of the whole world.



Intel’s processors code-named Conroe, Merom and Woodcrest will utilize a new micro-architecture with shorter pipeline and high performance per clock ratio. The new processors will feature 14-stages pipeline, down from 31 or more stages found in current Intel Pentium (Prescott) designs, 4-issue out-of-order execution engine as well as improved performance of the floating-point unit (FPU). Also, the new chips and platforms on their base will also feature capabilities like virtualization, LaGrande technology, x86-64 in addition to EDB, EIST and iAMT2.



Officials for Intel did not comment for the news-story.