Supposedly leaked roadmap presentation slides reveal the next Intel Haswell product, code-named Haswell-E-- an update on the company's high-end desktop (HEDT) platform complete with more physical cores among other improvements.
According to VR-Zone Haswell-E does away with 4-core CPUs in favour of 6- and 8-core chips with up to 20MB of L3 cache built using the 22nm process.
Hyper Threading gives the CPU a maximum of 16 logical cores, while maximum TDP ranges from 130W to 140W.
The desktop platform is supposed to rely on the "Wellsburg" motherboard chipset, with the LGA2011-3 socket handling quad-channel DDR4 RAM (2133MHz maximum clock speed, up to one DIMM per channel).
If the leaked slides are anything to go by, the 8-core Corei7 Haswell-E features a 55% performance improvement over a 4-core Corei7 Haswell clocked at 3.7GHz.
The notion of Intel releasing a desktop PC chipset makes sense, considering it concentrated entirely on laptops, tablets and hybrid PC devices at Computex 2013 (disappointing at least some enthusiasts in the process). Intel does not offer comment on the news story, but the slides suggest Haswell-E will launch sometime on H2 2014.
