New Intel Core I7's out NOW!!

[HavockJoker]

Next-Generation Intel PC Chips to Carry Intel Core Name

 

Source: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080811comp.htm

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 11, 2008 – Intel Corporation announced today that desktop processors based on the company's upcoming new microarchitecture (codenamed "Nehalem") will be formally branded "Intel® Core™ processor." The first products in this new family of processors, including an "Extreme Edition" version, will carry an "i7" identifier and will be formally branded as "Intel® Core™ i7 processor." This is the first of several new identifiers to come as different products launch over the next year. Products based on the new microarchitecture will deliver high performance and energy efficiency. This "best of both worlds" approach is expected to extend Intel's processor leadership in future mobile, desktop and server market segments.

"The Core name is and will be our flagship PC processor brand going forward," said Sean Maloney, Intel Corporation executive vice president and general manager, Sales and Marketing Group. "Expect Intel to focus even more marketing resources around that name and the Core i7 products starting now."

The Intel Core processor brand name has gained broad awareness, preference, and market momentum over the past several years. The Intel Core name remains the logical choice for Intel's latest family of processors. The Intel Core i7 processor brand logo will be available for high-performance desktop PCs with a separate black logo for Intel's highest-end "Extreme Edition." Intel will include processor model numbers to differentiate each chip.

Initial products based on this microarchitecture are expected to be in production in the fourth quarter of this year. These processors will feature Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, also known as simultaneous multi-threading, and are capable of handling eight software "threads" on four processor cores.

 

Just a little overview taken from:

Source: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15818

 

An overview of the Core i7

The Core i7 modifies the landscape quite a bit, but much of what you need to know about it is apparent in the picture of the processor die below, with the major components labeled.What you're seeing, incidentally, is a pretty good-sized chip—an estimated 731 million transistors arranged into a 263 mm² area via the same 45nm, high-k fabrication process used to produce "Penryn" Core 2 chips. Penryn has roughly 410 million transistors and a die area of 107 mm², but of course, it takes two Penryn dies to make one quad-core product. Meanwhile, AMD's native quad-core Phenom chips have 463 million transistors but occupy a larger die area of 283 mm² because they're made on a 65nm process and have a higher ratio of (less dense) logic to (denser) cache transistors. Then again, size is to some degree relative; the GeForce GTX 280 GPU is over twice the size of a Core i7 or Phenom.

[SLRRR]

It was already tested a week ago in Holland and there where already video's on youtube from people who had one. But yes its released :D

[DriftNismo]

Looks nice, someone recommended them to me but I still think i'll go for Quad Opterons if I ever go for new processors :p.

[ShadowGT]

Pentium 4 FTL :(

[Guest RB26DETT]

Pentium 4 FTL :(

 

Centrino Duo T2250 FTL :(

[TDU 505]

I've just bought my Q6600 heh

[Guest RB26DETT]

lawl, bad timing ey.

[kalniel]

Nah, very good actually.