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Originally Posted by Zer
Form factor LGA775 will still be widely available till mid 2009 start 2010...
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sigh.....obviously. However with the performance improvements of the Nehalem processor family and the new socket design incompatible with LGA 775 it will also obviously be relegated to the low/mid-range market as it is phased out. You can still purchase socket 478 CPUs and mobos, but...who really wants to?
With the return of hyperthreading abilities, a triple channel memory design, and Intel's first integrated memory controller the early results are showing significant improvements over Peryn class processors. Peryn CPUs are just a 45nm die shrink of the Core architecture released two years ago with the Conroe chips. Nehalem delivers a new architecture with major advantages over the Core design. In approximately a year Intel is targeting a 32nm die shrink to the Nehalem architecture and release the Westmere family of processors.
Intel's development cycle tends to follow a cycle of releasing a new architecture, then a die shrink on that design, then a new design, a die shrink, etc... We are entering the new design portion of the cycle and as can be expected the old architecture will quickly fall out of favor when compared to the performance of the new.