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Intel's Core i7 920, 940 & 965 processors Early Look: Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme Early Look: Asus Rampage II Extreme Early Look: MSI X58 Eclipse Early Look: Asus P6T Deluxe Intel talks about Nehalem, Larrabee & 32nm
After the nightmare of Netburst, Intel designed the Core microarchitecture with top to bottom scalability of utmost importance right from multi-socket server down to ultra-portable notebooks. Thats an incredibly difficult task to balance power saving thats most important in battery limited mobile applications, to highly scalable, ultra high performance servers. This is where Intel's "modular" design comes in even though Nehalem is a bigger, more complex die, internally it's split into parts that can in theory be mix and matched like simple building blocks. If you need more cores, or integrated graphics, or more QPI links; just drop them in. Intel splits the CPU into the Core(s) section and Uncore section that has, well, everything else. AMD has also cited itself to take this approach when we first heard about its next generation Fusion CPU - so by both retaining an element of flexibility it can approach and satisfy new markets quicker and meet the competition sooner, both of which are good for us as consumers. While on some level Nehalem was designed with this in mind again, in others this greater diversity in product type will also bring many more new sockets than were currently used to. This diversity will focus the greater populous of its users into particular hardware models that will be optimal products for their needs, however it could also mean upgrading costs far more if you decide to jump between boundaries - it's not just a CPU, it's the motherboard and possibly memory as well.
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Click to enlarge The new Core i7 brand was recently revealed as the official naming of Nehalem. We've also since been told that the Ads by Google "7" portion doesn't particularly mean much, although we expect there will be Core i5/6/8 etc as future processor sockets with specific abilities get introduced next year. HP Pavilion Desktop PCs The Perfect PC For Home Or Office View & Compare To Find Your PC Now! www.hp.com/id Pro BPM Certification Get Certified. Earn More Money Discover Smarter Way of Working www.ibpminstitute.org TOGAF certification unique online training course, Flexible, costeffective, convenient enterprisearchitecturetraining.com Architecture Design Designing for Interconnect and Memory Performance -White Paper synopsys.com/architecturedesign Business Architecture Free Quarterly Webinars The Strategy-to-Execution Process www.metaplexity.com
Click to enlarge Die size - Nehalem has a larger 263mm versus 214mm for Yorkfield (both cores included) Transistor Count - Nehalem's is actually lower at 731M versus 820M for Yorkfield, this is mostly because of the reduction of overall cache: 9MB L2 and L3 versus 12MB L2, as SRAM cells require four transistors per bit. Physical Size - LGA1366 is considerably larger at 45x42mm versus 37x37mm for LGA775. Side by side the Core i7 dwarfs the tiny quad core Penryn, and the larger central core is surrounded by a 76 percent increase in LGA pads and quite clearly the two are not compatible. Core i7's new socket is LGA1366, and the extra pads accommodate the power and data traffic for new components inside the package, that we will further
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