Intel Nehalem's Market Named Leaked to be Core i7

Ambushed · 08-11-2008, 05:02 PM

Making its way around the Internet late last week was speculation of the official name for Intel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Corporation ’s future processor microarchitecture, currently codenamed Nehalem.

If the rumors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumors are to be correct, the Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processors will officially be announced August 11 with an expected launch date of Q4 2008.

Nahalem is expected to be initially manufactured with a 45nm process and be available with two, four, or eight cores, for up to 731 million transistors in the quad core variant. A very exciting aspect of the new architecture is the new integrated memory controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_controller , called the Intel QuickPath Interconnect, with DDR3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM SDRAM support, which will eliminate the bottleneck that was the front side bus and which had been haunting Intel for years. This should result in a substantial performance increase despite Intel’s competition, AMD, having been using an integrated memory controller in their processors for years.

Another feature of Nahalem will be the re-introduction of Hyper-Threading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading technology, which was used previously in the Pentium 4 series of processors. Hyper-Threading allows a single core to run an adjacent virtual core, allowing for two threads per actual core, making for potential performance gains. With all the added performance of the upcoming Nahalem processors, power usage is not expected to rise much, providing for greater performance-per-watt efficiency.

Nehalem will come in variants for desktops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/desktop , servers, and notebooks. The upcoming home desktop variant is codenamed Bloomfield and will use the new LGA1366 socket, making it incompatible with all previous generation motherboards.

Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/cor...alem,6093.html

tknick90 · 08-11-2008, 05:14 PM

I wonder what the prices are going to look like around launch.

ducis · 08-11-2008, 05:23 PM

eight cores is stupid 16 virtual cores is even more stupid, stop shinking dies and adding more cores and start making some real discoveries !

jdbennet · 08-11-2008, 05:50 PM

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LGA1366

lol the next socket should be socket 1337 (leet lol)

Kill Bill · 08-11-2008, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ducis

eight cores is stupid 16 virtual cores is even more stupid, stop shinking dies and adding more cores and start making some real discoveries !

But practically why all in all if they make new discoveries it will = 8 cores.

I really hope this comes out before april next year because the mac pro with 16 cores

Tuffie · 08-11-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Kill Bill

I really hope this comes out before april next year because the mac pro with 16 cores

Great even more computing ability no one can or will use.

ScOuT · 08-11-2008, 06:22 PM

Ya that's great.....if your running a huge server in your house.

There are only a few programs that take advantage of 4 cores at the moment. The only cool thing is the price of the extreme series will drop, maybe I see a QX9775 in my future

Kill Bill · 08-11-2008, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Tuffie

Great even more computing ability no one can or will use.

Ehehem 20-40 FCP Rendering in 1 hour Also Crysis. if you think like that then might as well not make new CPUS

[-0MEGA-] · 08-11-2008, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ducis

eight cores is stupid 16 virtual cores is even more stupid, stop shinking dies and adding more cores and start making some real discoveries !

Multiple cores is the future, not clockspeed.

So if the Corei7 comes out today, what motherboard are we to use? Unless there are already some out (haven't looked yet).

ramodkk · 08-11-2008, 11:08 PM

^ Exactly, I read somewhere that Intel is guaranteeing to have an (at least) 80 Core CPU by 2013. Which I think is too much time...

08-11-2008, 05:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ambushed Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 2,059	Intel Nehalem's Market Named Leaked to be Core i7 Making its way around the Internet late last week was speculation of the official name for Intel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Corporation ’s future processor microarchitecture, currently codenamed Nehalem. If the rumors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumors are to be correct, the Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processors will officially be announced August 11 with an expected launch date of Q4 2008. Nahalem is expected to be initially manufactured with a 45nm process and be available with two, four, or eight cores, for up to 731 million transistors in the quad core variant. A very exciting aspect of the new architecture is the new integrated memory controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_controller , called the Intel QuickPath Interconnect, with DDR3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM SDRAM support, which will eliminate the bottleneck that was the front side bus and which had been haunting Intel for years. This should result in a substantial performance increase despite Intel’s competition, AMD, having been using an integrated memory controller in their processors for years. Another feature of Nahalem will be the re-introduction of Hyper-Threading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading technology, which was used previously in the Pentium 4 series of processors. Hyper-Threading allows a single core to run an adjacent virtual core, allowing for two threads per actual core, making for potential performance gains. With all the added performance of the upcoming Nahalem processors, power usage is not expected to rise much, providing for greater performance-per-watt efficiency. Nehalem will come in variants for desktops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/desktop , servers, and notebooks. The upcoming home desktop variant is codenamed Bloomfield and will use the new LGA1366 socket, making it incompatible with all previous generation motherboards. Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/cor...alem,6093.html __________________ Core 2 Duo E6550 2.3GHz @ 3.4GHz FOXCONN MARS 2GB DDR2 800 500GB western digital SATA II XP Professional SP3 Nivida GeForce 9600GT 512MB 19" LCD widescreen 5ms www.easycomputers.co.nz

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ScOuT Platinum Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 523	Ya that's great.....if your running a huge server in your house. There are only a few programs that take advantage of 4 cores at the moment. The only cool thing is the price of the extreme series will drop, maybe I see a QX9775 in my future