Intel has received a lot of sneers from AMD regarding it current quad-core architecture. AMD has pointed out that Intel has basically put two Conroe cores together and turned them into one processor, which isn’t that far off from the truth though. AMD has, as you most likely know, a “real” quad-core architecture with its Barcelona processor, where all four cores are housed on the same die. But then again Intel’s current quad-core architecture is just a stop on the way until it has a dedicated architecture with four cores. The quesion is when this “genuine” quad-core architecture will appear. HKEPC has now received a little more information about Yorkfield which seems to be the code-name for this architecture.
Yorkfield will use a shared L2 cache just as its dual-core sibling Conroe which means that there will be no problems with bandwidth limitations within the circuit, which can happen when you use two separate dual-core circuits as with Kentsfield.
Yorkfield will use a 1333MHz processor bus, DDR3-1333/DDR2-800 memory and a dual PCI Express 2.0 interface. The launch date is yet to be announced/revealed but we will most likely not see Yorkfield on the market until the second half of 2007.
