At the Game Developers Conference, Intel showed off its Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, the chip makers first six-core CPU for consumers. Codenamed Gulftown, the Core i7-980X comes with more cores and computing threads, and a larger L3 cache, than the current i7-975, and all at the same price.
– Intel is showing off its new high-end “Gulftown” gaming chip, the
six-core Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, at the Game Developers
Conference in San Francisco.
Intel officials previewed the chip March 10.
The chip, the first six-core Intel chip for
consumers, is built on the companys 32-nanometer …