Intel sees enthusiast demand for Devil's Canyon

Source: Intel.

Intel expects to see great interest from PC enthusiasts for upcoming launches as there were relatively few refreshes for new Intel products targeting this segment in the last 12 months.

Leighton Phillips, Director, Product Marketing and Pricing, Asia Pacific and Japan for Intel, notes that enthusiast users are the most demanding users of all. “Enthusiasts have a very broad usage model and buy the top (performers) that we have,” he said.

He shared that there are currently 700 million PC gamers (enthusiasts) worldwide, and revenues for the PC gaming market are forecast to hit US$25 billion in 2015. ‘Devil’s Canyon’, shipping in June, is Intel’s top of the line enthusiast platform, Phillips said.

The new platform is an unlocked 4-core CPU running at 4 GHz that has been seen running at 5 GHz at Intel events. Formally named the Intel Core i7-4790K, Devil’s Canyon supports the LGA 1150 socket, has an 8MB Intel Smart Cache, and 16 PCI Express 3.0 lanes.

“It’s one of two of the biggest discussions online,” he said.

Also shipping in June is the Intel Pentium Anniversary processor. Marking the 20th anniversary of the Pentium chip, the CPU is also unlocked for performance tuning, runs at a base frequency of 3.2 GHz, has two cores and LGA 1150 socket support. Intel calls it ‘value overclocking for first-time enthusiasts’.