Intel Starts Shipping Haswell Processors to OEMs

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CNET and Etechnix have reported that Intel has begun shipping its Haswell CPUs to OEMs ahead of its end of quarter release date.

Intel has started shipping its Haswell CPUs to system builders. The site also states that the processors will be launched at the end of this quarter, with Intel providing more details next Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2013) conference in Beijing. 

The Haswell processor family is part of Intel's "tick tock" design process in which it launches a new processor design in one year, and then shrinks it to a smaller process size in the following year. Haswell offers design tweaks made to the Ivy Bridge architecture, which is essentially a process-shrunk revision of Sandy Bridge. New features introduced in Haswell include HNI instruction set architecture extensions, a high-performance L4 cache layer, models with a 10 W TDP and more.

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  • bombebomb
    And the crowd goes.... no where
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  • slomo4sho
    Meh... I'll wait off on the new socket type until there are motherboards compatible with DDR4 which should be sometime next year...
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  • bee144
    slomo4shoMeh... I'll wait off on the new socket type until there are motherboards compatible with DDR4 which should be sometime next year...
    Haswell is the last "open" socket type. I plan on buying this generation as Broadwell will have the CPU soldered onto the mobo. I want the ability to pick and choose.
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  • shafe88
    bee144Haswell is the last "open" socket type. I plan on buying this generation as Broadwell will have the CPU soldered onto the mobo. I want the ability to pick and choose.That's why I plan to stick with AMD, that if the motherboard or cpu dies I only haft to buy one and not both.
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  • 11796pcs
    bee144Haswell is the last "open" socket type. I plan on buying this generation as Broadwell will have the CPU soldered onto the mobo. I want the ability to pick and choose.Is that a rumor or confirmed?
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  • segio526
    Man, is anyone else tired of having what "Tick Tock" means explained in every other intel article? It's been their release cycle since like 2006, at this point you should be able to just link to a Wikipedia page or something!
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  • cbrunnem
    bee144Haswell is the last "open" socket type. I plan on buying this generation as Broadwell will have the CPU soldered onto the mobo. I want the ability to pick and choose.
    not true. intel has said that it will likely keep the high end cpus in the lga format

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  • CheesyHotDogPuff
    bee144Haswell is the last "open" socket type. I plan on buying this generation as Broadwell will have the CPU soldered onto the mobo. I want the ability to pick and choose.Nothing has been confirmed yet.
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  • kanoobie
    bee144Haswell is the last "open" socket type. I plan on buying this generation as Broadwell will have the CPU soldered onto the mobo. I want the ability to pick and choose. Why would they switch back to soldering the CPU onto the motherboard? Most people don't build their own computers and having the CPU soldered onto the motherboard would make it harder for venders to service the computers they sell.
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  • utroz
    Too bad they are still waiting on the new revision chipset to fix the usb3 s3 wakeup issue, it is like the Sandy Bridge B2 chipset issue (had to do with the Sata ports) all over again....
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