[Skunkworks] Intel Core i9: Six Cores Of Speed

Intel's Core i9 chips won't hit the market for a few more months, but that hasn't stopped Polish site PCLab from putting the new 32-nanometer processor through its paces in a recent series of benchmark tests. While testing the pre-release 2.8 GHz Gulftown chip, PCLab found<http://pclab.pl/art39718.html>a significant speed increase with certain applications. According to their report, certain resource-intensive tasks, such as editing video or 3D modelling, perform up to 50% faster than Intel's current Core i7 chip<http://www.pcworld.com/article/165604/intels_new_core_i7_chips_surface_on_retail_sites.html>. http://www.pcworld.com/article/182906/intel_core_i9_six_cores_of_speed.html