Quad Core Socket P Mobile CPU is coming

http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20080313PD219.html

Intel to launch quad-core notebook CPU in 3Q08
Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Friday 14 March 2008]


Intel is planning to launch its first quad-core CPU for notebooks, the Core 2 Extreme QX9300, in the third quarter this year with pricing set at a new high of US$1,038 in thousand-unit tray quantities, according to sources at motherboard makers.

With the market demand for top-level notebooks still below average, Intel expects the quad-core notebook CPUs will not become standard in the performance/mainstream notebook market until the second half of 2009, and therefore should not impact the desktop PC market, noted the sources.

The Core 2 Extreme QX9300 will be manufactured at 45nm and have a core frequency of 2.53GHz. The CPU will come in a socket P package and support FSB speeds up to 1066MHz. The chip will include 12MB L2 cache and have a maximum TDP of 45W.

 

bad news,so ordinary qc will come out only in 2009 q2!

 

That we know of since last year I believe.
Xirurg, maybe Q1 09.

 

By the time these come out, there'll probably be eight-core desktop chips. I douby we'll see too many companies offering these when they come out, too.

 

This is the first confirmation of the CPU being Socket P. That is the salient point.

 

Excellent. I was worried that the quad cores would be reserved to Nahalem's socket.

 

Hey wait, that means it's compatible with Santa Rosa since it's socket P. Nice. Will have to research that though.

 

The pin might not match though. A lot of other factors that need to be considered.

 

Could this fit in a Gateway P-6831FX ?