Athlon X6 / Pentium 6-core when?

[Nena Trinity]

Say when do you all think we will see six-cores in the budget space?

[Lenovo1984]

I don't know when it would happen for those CPUs, but we sort of already have budget 6 core chips with the Ryzen 5 series. The 1600 and 2600 can be pretty cheap these days. I've seen the 2600 available for $110 USD. Of course, you also have older chips, such as the older Xeons that still hold their own pretty well. 

[porina]

I'm probably mis-reading the question in that I'd consider "low end" to be i3/R3 level. When do we expect the next process shrink? I think that might be the technological change to enable it.

 

If low end is meant to be the level below that, we're looking out even longer.

 

Actually, there might be one area where we see higher core counts earlier, with Intel's... I forgot the name of it. They want to use a mobile inspired big.LITTLE approach. Currently they're showing off a CPU with 4 atom cores and one big core. Only 5 cores, but intended for lower power use cases, while having a big core for some heavy lifting when required. This approach might see core counts go up faster than if all cores were the same.

[caldrin]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07XTQZJ28/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_9eg5DbMAMSFPB?tag=georiot-trd-21&ascsubtag=tomshardware-1334465960267654649-20

Not sure how much more budget you could get really.

[porina]

3 minutes ago, caldrin said:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07XTQZJ28/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_9eg5DbMAMSFPB?tag=georiot-trd-21&ascsubtag=tomshardware-1334465960267654649-20

Not sure how much more budget you could get really.

To save anyone else a click, that's a Ryzen 1600 for just under £100. AMD have put themselves in an interesting situation by having the socket compatibility for more generations. As such the old ones have to be practically given away to shift, but I wouldn't consider it the norm in the context of the thread's question.

 

 

Also the thing I was thinking off was Intel Foveros. Currently they have Lakefield which has 4 atom-class cores, and one sunny-cove core. I don't know how expensive the packaging is to do this, since it is chiplets taken to the next level, but atom cores are generally low cost so something like this in future budget systems might get interesting. What might actually happen instead is it'll go into the thin and light laptops at high price. No pricing but example at following link:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15050/samsung-develops-intel-lakefield-based-galaxy-book-s

 

[Nena Trinity]

3 hours ago, porina said:

To save anyone else a click, that's a Ryzen 1600 for just under £100. AMD have put themselves in an interesting situation by having the socket compatibility for more generations. As such the old ones have to be practically given away to shift, but I wouldn't consider it the norm in the context of the thread's question.

 

 

Also the thing I was thinking off was Intel Foveros. Currently they have Lakefield which has 4 atom-class cores, and one sunny-cove core. I don't know how expensive the packaging is to do this, since it is chiplets taken to the next level, but atom cores are generally low cost so something like this in future budget systems might get interesting. What might actually happen instead is it'll go into the thin and light laptops at high price. No pricing but example at following link:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15050/samsung-develops-intel-lakefield-based-galaxy-book-s

 

Well we can always hope for the Intel Core i3-11XXX series may have 6-cores! (10 series does not appear to have it...)