Further details on Intel’s upcoming hexacore Xeon processors have surfaced, suggesting that the chips will form their own flagship line rather than replacing the existing quadcore processors. Word out on the web is that the hexacore chips will initially be in short supply – kicking off with the 3.33GHz Core i7-980X in March 2010 – and will be expensive, too; $999 for the i7-980X.

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Much like Intel decided to go for the per core overclokcing feature ‘Turbo boost’ AMD apprantly also will follow that trend by enabling a new feature called Dynamic Performance Boost for the upcoming Thuban (hexacore) processors.

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