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Before entering on the details about the architectural features present on the Nehalem CPUs, let’s make a summary of the base elements that are common to the many different versions: server, desktop and notebook. It’s worth noticing how the new architecture engineering process used by Intel aims at obtaining CPUs that can be used in [...]
Product information 3.20 GHz core speed 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory The good: Fastest high-end desktop CPU; supporting motherboard supports both graphics card vendors’ multicard technologies. The bad: Requires an expensive new motherboard; chipset needs three memory sticks for maximum [...]
Intel Corporation introduced several high-performance desktop and server processors today, bringing the next level of integration and intelligence to computers. The new Intel Core™ i5 processor family, two new Intel Core™ i7 processors and the Intel® Xeon processor 3400 series bring Intel’s latest Nehalem microarchitecture to mainstream desktop and entry server markets. New Intel® Core™ [...]
Nehalem is the codename that indicates the new generation of Intel processors. The first Nehalem CPUs have the name of Core i7 and are destined to medium-high end desktop systems. With these next few articles, we will be going through the architectural characteristics on these processors, so we can better analyze the performance results for [...]
Intel has announced that its latest range of desktop processors will officially be called, Intel Core processors. This new Intel processors will be based on company’s upcoming microarchitecture formerly codenamed “Nehalem”. The first products by Intel in this new family of processors, which also includes an “Extreme Edition” version, will carry an “i7” identifier and [...]
