The successor of the Core i7 processors on the lga1366-foot, the Sandy Bridge E-series, would be up to the first quarter of 2012 have been postponed. Originally, the high-end series cpus in the last quarter of 2011.
Intel would be the introduction of the Sandy Bridge E-series processors to defer to 2012. The company may choose for a strategy in which the server-versions of the cpu earlier releases than the consumer versions, so consider VR-Zone. According to the website, Intel sufficient serverchips have in stock before the consumer cpus are wafers cut. The underlying idea is that from a wafer are relatively few large chips can be achieved, what the construction of inventories is time-consuming.
The Sandy Bridge E-series would be the successor of the current Core i7 processors with socket lga1366. That Bloomfield and Gulftown processors are the high-end segment for consumers. The Sandy Bridge E-series uses a new socket, socket lga2011, and a new X79 chipset. Incidentally, would Intel even though the successor of the mobile mainstream Sandy Bridge processors, Ivy Bridge, have been postponed. To do so would have decided to laptopfabrikanten the time to give to Sandy Bridge models to sell.