the i9 cpu?

[Djole123]

1 minute ago, Legolessed said:

but eventually they are going to have 1000's cpu's in each tier

They will eventually come up with a new name. Was there a 586? No! But there was a Pentium 1! 

Was there a Pentium 5? No! But there was the Core 2 Duo/Quad!

Was there a Core 3 Quad? No! But there was the i7?

 

Will there be an i9? No! But they will come up with some other names!

[paddy-stone]

Where did he get 3 years from???

 

2008 was only 3 years ago, shit I'm stuck in another dimension

[mikat]

8 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

Or like 4 cores, 8 hyperthreaded, 16 superultrainsanelyhyperhthreaded.

Imagine that on a dual Broadwell Xeon; 44 cores, 176 threads. That would be crushing Cinebench.

you mean 8xE7-8890 v4 (24C/48T 60M cache 2,2 Ghz)?

[Coaxialgamer]

"core I"-series doesn't mean anything. They probably would redo their naming conventions . 

[Djole123]

9 minutes ago, mikat said:

you mean 8xE7-8890 v4 (24C/48T 60M cache 2,2 Ghz)?

768 threads 

*mindblow*

[mikat]

7 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

768 threads 

*mindblow*

last time i checked 48*8 was 384

[Djole123]

6 minutes ago, mikat said:

last time i checked 48*8 was 384

I was giving info with "dual HT" so if it was like that, every of the 384 threads, when dualHT'd, is a total of 768 threads.

[Nena Trinity]

I think they should rename all their X99 stuff to i9!

[mikat]

4 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

I was giving info with "dual HT" so if it was like that, every of the 384 threads, when dualHT'd, is a total of 768 threads.

well then it would scale terribly because you'd have to put 4 threads on one core

[mikat]

3 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

I think they should rename all their X99 stuff to i9!

yes, but it would cause confusion at first

[Nena Trinity]

3 minutes ago, mikat said:

yes, but it would cause confusion at first

True!

[PianoPlayer88Key]

I was reading up on somewhat older Intel CPUs recently, and apparently there were rumors going around before it was released that what eventually became the HEDT / LGA1366/2011 / X58/79/99 i7 CPUs was going to be called i9.

 

Speaking of i-whatever Intel CPUs ... The 40th anniversary of x86 is coming up in 2018.  That would be around the time that Cannonlake, or 8xxx CPUs, would be current, I think.   One site I found said the original 8086 CPU was launched June 8, 1978.

 

I suggest that Intel releases something like an i3-8086X CPU - a 40th anniversary edition of 8086, like the Pentium G3258 was a 20th anniversary of the Pentium.

 

As for why I picked the name:  8086 - to commemorate the first x86 CPU ; X suffix - instead of calling it 80X86 ; i3 - because who heard of a desktop i7 that had a 0 as the 2nd digit?  (Also we've had an unlocked Pentium, and we already have unlocked i5's and i7's - I think we're about due for an unlocked i3.  Also I think sometime an unlocked Xeon, Celeron and Atom might be interesting as well.)

 

The CPU, being an X, should be multiplier-unlocked.  Also, being a special edition, it should be overclockable even on non-Z-series motherboards.  At minimum, it should be compatible with LGA1151, 100-series chipsets.  Bonus points for also releasing versions for LGA2011, LGA1150, LGA1155, LGA1156, LGA1366, LGA775, PGA478, Slot 1, Socket 7, etc - basically every socket Intel has used back to the original 8086.   (I'd suggest mostly concentrating on ones in the last several years, for example any older than LGA775 would be special order only.)  Also if possible, if versions are made for older sockets, it should come with something to update the bios to support it.  I'd hope that newer ones, like 1150/1151/2011-3, would work without requiring a bios update.

 

I suggest a price of $86.65, which was the original launch price of the 8086 CPU.  Adjusted for inflation, it'd be around $315-320, a bit too high for an i-series with 0 as the 2nd digit.  (No charging $1000+, even though it does have an "X" suffix.)

However, I was just thinking - the OEM/Tray version could be $86.65, and the ~$315 boxed version could be bundled with a Noctua NH-U12 and an Nvidia GTX 1250 Ti or then-equivalent cooler and GPU.

 

Some basic specs would be a 5 GHz clock speed, commemorating the 5 MHz of the original 8086 CPU.  (Optionally, it could have a 4.77 GHz clock to commemorate the 4.77 MHz of the CPU in the original IBM PC.)  It should have 8 cores with hyperthreading (16 threads, or just 16 core without HT), to commemorate the 16-bit nature of the original 8086, if my research is correct.  There would be no integrated GPU.

 

I'm sure there's more specs/details that could be commemorative of the original CPU, but those are what I've thought of for now.