AppleInsider reports that Apple is awaiting the official word from Intel that it can ship an update to its beefy Mac Pro workstation.
The new Mac Pro will feature Intel’s currently unreleased processor known as Penryn, it will represent the first upgrade to the Mac Pro since its inception in August 2006. The update will also push the Mac Pro to the forefront of computing as the Penryn-family of processors is based on Intel’s 45nm manufacturing process.
AppleInsider believes that the new Mac Pro will top out with an 8-Core model using two 3.2GHz “Harpertown” processors. The new Quad-core processors feature a 1600Mhz front-side bus as well as 12MB of L2 cache.
The rumour site believes that the lower-end Mac Pro models could recieve the dual-core Penryn processor know as “Wolfdale”.
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