Eight-core Intel Sandy Bridge E chips listed on, pulled from eBay

What’s this? A listing for an unreleased Intel chip on eBay? This purported eight-core, hyper-threaded Sandy Bridge E-series processor is apparently a third party tester unit, hence the cloak and dagger “Intel Confidential” stamped in the middle of the thing. The $1,360 dollar piece of near-future tech was posted with a strict no refund / return policy, and not surprisingly, the sale has been shutdown prematurely. Whether it was pulled by the seller or at the strong urging of Intel will have to remain a mystery for now, as will those blazingly fast speeds we’ve read so much about — at least until it pops up again on Craigslist. [Thanks, Lars] Continue reading Eight-core Intel Sandy Bridge E chips listed on, pulled from eBay Eight-core Intel Sandy Bridge E chips listed on, pulled from eBay originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 May 2011 21:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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