Core i9 Processor on Ebay

Intel’s upcoming Gulftown processor, which most of us expect will become the Core i9 by the time it eventually goes on sale has showed up on Ebay, with the still in-development and testing CPU selling for the ripe price of $1,200.

While the current range of Core i5 and Core i7 processors top out at quad-core, the Gulftown/Core i9 boasts fully six cores, and some of the data leaking out from Intel’s tests show it to be a very interesting beast indeed. If nothing else it’s curious to see that there’s a Gulftown processor already working and released into the wild, regardless of just how much illegality it took to get there.

Intel Shows off 48-Core Processor

Intel is moving us well into the future by showing off what it feels could well be the processor of tomorrow. It’s 48-core processor doesn’t have a codename for now, but it’s been dubbed by Intel the “single-chip cloud computer.”

Perhaps most interesting is that the prototype of the chip shown off, which boasts so very many cores that we can’t begin to guess at what they’ll call it (dual core and quad core don’t quite cut it), is that it should, when finished, only consume around the same amount of power as two standard light bulbs. This, we’re told, is thanks to some new power management arrangement Intel has been putting together.

It’s also curious to see just what Intel imagines the chip will see use for. From Intel’s own piece on its upcoming chip,

New EEE to Outclass Other Netbooks?

Rumours of a dual-core Intel Atom processor have been doing the rounds for a while, but now those rumours have spread to encompass Asus’ EEE PC, which people are saying could be the first netbook to boast a dual-core Atom.

According to Liliputing Asus’ EEE PC 1201N and 1201HA ‘leaked’ specifications include the fact that it boasts fully 3GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive, to say nothing of the fact that it boasts the newly finalised Wireless-n standard. As you might have guessed from the first paragraph though, we’re particularly interested in the news that the EEE 1201N is said to boast a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N330 dual core processor… and it’s Nvidia ION based, like Samsung’s N510.