A couple of weeks ago it was reported
that Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge-E processor and Waimea Bay platform had been delayed until January 2012. New information has reached us that suggest that Intel is trying very hard to get the new platform out this year, although this means that the company will axe a lot of platform features.
Judging by the information we’ve seen, Intel is having several issues with the new platform, ranging from storage, to PCI Express and apparently even CPU revisions. It’s pretty much bad news all around. But let’s take a step back and look at things with a view from Intel’s Xeon roadmap. The picture below is from a partner presentation and although it’s been seen before, we’re going to leave that partner un-named as we don’t want to get them in any trouble. As you can see, it details four different chipset SKUs for Patsburg,- A, -B, -D and -T. The X79 chipset is known as Patsburg-X and was meant to be similar in terms of features to the Patsburg-D SKU…………………………….. More Story Via: VR-Zone
