Intel follows AMD and goes offroad - or is that 8x4?
Eric Kim, Intel's Senior VP and General Manager of the Digital Home Group, barely hinted at SKULLTRAIL, the company's attempt to appeal to the deep-walleted enthusiast with its take on a multi-socketed, multi-graphics platform
Click for larger imageSKULLTRAIL, details emerged, will bring together a couple of LGA775 desktop quad-core CPUs on a single motherboard, and, wait for it, four PCIe graphics-card slots (x8, most likely) for ultimate performance via, we hope and drivers-permitting, multi-GPU operation.
That be eight processing cores and ultra-high-resolution gaming, folks. AMD's managed to sell, well, a few of its Quad FX, so the question is whether Intel will fare any better? Time will tell, but one thing's for sure; it will be an expensive proposition when it's officially launched later on this year. Quad-core CPUs aren't cheap.
