April 22 2011 news by xbitlabs

Intel is considering to bundle a liquid cooling solution with its next-generation high-end processors, being the Intel Sandy Bridge E series (SNB- E). The liquid-based cooler will allow Intel's Extreme Edition (XE) microprocessors to work at even higher frequencies and thus offer higher performance overall.

Asetek and CoolIT Systems are probaly the the companies that are capable of producing this cooler for Intel, it's not sure though who's getting the 'contract'.

Thanks to a number of micro-architectural enhancements of Sandy Bridge, the new line of extreme processors promises to be very fast. It remains to be seen whether hexacore Intel processors will be able to outperform octacore CPUs from AMD, which are due to be released in mid 2011.