Nehalem to become Core i7 processor
Intel have decided to brand Nehalem with a new name “Core i7″. That means no matter Bloomfield, Lynnfield, or Havendale will officially get their name.
There will be 3 Bloomfield to enter PC market later this year, and the 999USD top-of-the-line Bloomfield is the only Core i7 Extreme Edition processor current revealed.
All i7 processors and i7 Extreme Edition processor will be officially announced in Aug 11st, launch date set to Q4 this year.
August 8th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
LOL @ Intel. With those prices they are really up to something
August 8th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Why use i7?????any explanation
August 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
maybe 7th generation and i as intel?
August 8th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I don’t think so. 786 was P4.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Well, it could be that….
386 = i1
486 = i2
P5 = i3
P6 = i4
Netburst = i5
Core = i6
Nehalem = i7
August 8th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Maybe they count from Pentium 4 with Core as 5, Core 2 as 6 and now Nehalem as 7.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
i7 = IT?
Probably not, but it’s a thought. We know how sad intel are :p
August 8th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Doh, don’t you nerds have better things to talk about, than “why its called i7″?
Does it really matter that much? ;D
Get a life!
August 8th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
@ Liza: “Ipse Dixti” (latin)
August 8th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
E.C. — “Ipse Dixit” XD
August 8th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Core and Core 2 are based on the P6 that dates back to the Pentium Pro
the Pentium 4 was a totally new architecture called NetBurst
there for i7 makes sense here making this the ‘P7′
August 8th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
If all Cores were Pentiums, then Nehalem would be Pentium 7.
August 9th, 2008 at 2:25 am
@ Elios: Core and Core 2 are completely different animals.
The Core Duo processors are 32-bit and are very similar to two Pentium M’s on one die, i.e. it was essentially a P6 processor.
NetBurst was P68 internally at Intel. It could be thought of as the P7 i786, however P7 was used for the Itanium.
Core 2 processors were a new 64-bit architecture designed from the ground-up. They are not based on the Pentium Pro.
Core i7 is another radicially different 64-bit architecture built from the ground-up, not based on predecessors.
So figuring out where the 7 comes from is still a task at hand.
August 9th, 2008 at 2:35 am
The 2.66 ghz Bloomfield will only be $284, that’s the one I will be getting.
August 9th, 2008 at 3:53 am
core2duo was not built from the ground up… it was based mostly on the p3 design.
August 9th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Andrew, believe what you will but, from someone who actually worked on the design team of three of the five processors you mention, you couldn’t be more wrong.
P6/Pentium Pro was the start of the its architecture family leading directly through PentiumII, PentiumIII, Centrino/PentiumM, Core, Core2, up to i7. The amount of change between each one varied but none of them were a truly new architecture. Each was built on top of the one before it. Major features were added along the way but they’re largely the same base.
Along the way, the fork to Netburst/Pentium 4 occured. It was completely different and from the ground up but was not called P68.
August 9th, 2008 at 7:10 am
[...] to an article on Expreview.com, the processors based … August 8, 2008 | In Uncategorized [...]
August 9th, 2008 at 11:53 am
maybe. its cause apple will have exclusive rights to use the architecture.
aka, apples “product transition” which blows away competitors. the i7 processors
August 9th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Windows 7! Lawl
August 9th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
These processors get announced on my birthday
Can’t wait to see the specs
August 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I think that’s not a verygood name.What’s i7 mean?Intel is mysterious right now.
Things are going to exited and Nehalem will be mine
August 9th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
are they preparing 7 core in one processor ?
August 9th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Iffy on the name, but the logos are sexy.
August 9th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I think they are preparing 4 cores in one processor
August 9th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
they are acctualy preparing 8 cores and 16 core systems
August 9th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
That is 8 cores in 1 processor
August 10th, 2008 at 5:01 am
August 10th, 2008 at 7:29 am
[...] 鍒嗙被: 妗岄潰浜у搧 Intel宸茬粡鍐冲畾灏嗘渶鏂颁竴浠ehalem澶勭悊鍣ㄧ殑鍚嶇О锛屽懡鍚嶄负i7锛岃繖灏辫〃绀轰笉绠℃槸鍙獴loomfield銆丩ynnfield锛岃繕鏄疕avendale锛岄兘灏嗙О涔嬩负i7銆傚皢浜庢湰鏈11鏃ユ寮忓彂甯冿紝涓嶈繃鐪熸涓婂競鐨勬椂闂达紝棰勮涓轰粖骞寸鍥涘銆備粖骞存櫄浜涗細杩涘叆甯傚満鐨3娆綛loomfield锛屾渶楂橀樁鐨勮浠1000缇庡厓锛屼负i7鏋侀檺鐗堟湰锛圗xtreme锛夛紝鍏跺畠鍒欎负涓鑸増鏈傚紩鐢ㄦ潵婧 | 姝ゆ枃绔犵綉鍧 | 杞瘎姝ゆ枃绔 | 鍥炲簲 [...]
August 10th, 2008 at 9:51 am
What if the article is wrong and they don’t call it “i7″. Then what will it mean?
August 11th, 2008 at 11:15 am
[...] to an article on Expreview.com, the processors based [...]
August 11th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Andrew, think man, if i7 is not based on previous architectures, then where is the support for previous programs. I mean it’s something like running a .exe on a Linux with no wine or something, because let the .exe be a previous architecture and elf linux binary the new architecture. Thats the principles of processors. Another example is Mac and other platforms. Thats why we separate architectures. It’s not from ground up, or else the name of the new intel processors could be alpha, powerpc, or what name they want to add them. If I remember correctly this principle is called reverse compatibility. Good day & sorry for my bad English
August 11th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I’m an oldtimer. I wish they had simply continued the x86 nomenclature.
8086,80286,80386, 80486, Pentium=80586, Pentium Pro=80686 etc. etc. Too bad the branding geniuses at Intel’s marketing department messed it all up to keep us confused as to the actual technological progress/generation involved.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
U can see 8 cores in the Task manager but infact there are only 4 real core because intel use Hyper threading technology,like Pentium 4 but better!
August 14th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Its a pity, if its true that only the Extreme can be OCed…
Hope the low and main would be unlock…
August 15th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Locked multi’s or whatever they use to limit OC will last about 2 months until they realise they left an open door for AMD to casually stroll thru with an unlocked series of 2nd gen Phenom’s.
A lifeline for AMD at least
August 21st, 2008 at 12:50 am
Pentium=1
Pentium II=2
Pentium III=3
Pentium 4=4
Pentium D=5
Core 2=6
Core i7=7
August 25th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
[...] Expressview [...]
August 26th, 2008 at 12:07 am
[...] Core i7 [...]
August 31st, 2008 at 9:57 pm
36,,, hey, i think you are right!
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:41 am
well.. the only “new” technology we do have now is the Atom, it’s a 4th _really_ new tech since:
1. pentium
2. pentium pro
3. netburst (think p4)
4. Atom
September 12th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Yo creo..y solo es una suposicion…que Intel tendra este procesador para “basarlo”, por llamarlo de alguna manera, en la plataforma que tendra que como exigencias el mantenimiento del proximo sistema operativo de Redmond…el Windows Seven o Win 7 =).
Es por ello que, tambien suponiendo, intel podria tener ya en sus planes la ubicacion de un producto fuerte en compatibilidad de el nuevo SO.
El que no entienda que lo traduzca al ingles que yo no tengo ganas xDDDD…
atte.
Conan
November 19th, 2008 at 4:55 am
I have not idea what you all are talking about…….! but I love changes!