Intel to ship Intel i7

Nov

2008

Intel to ship Intel i7

intel After a lot of rumors about its next release, Intel is now finally ready to ship its next generation processor i7, better known as Nahelem, by November the 17th. i7 is based on a totally new technology with native quad-core which is said to be the faster in the world. Intel will ship three new Stock Keeping Unit. Let’s see together what they are.

Core i7-920 (2.66GHz), 1000 units at $284.
Core i7-940 (2.93MHz), 1000 units at $562.
Core i7-965 (3.2GHz), 1000 units at $999.

If you want to know more, read this excellent article from Wikipedia.

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3 Comments to “Intel to ship Intel i7”

William Pastuszka Says:
June 1st, 2009

To be honest i was going to buy one for a new build for Windows 7 but i fail to see the difference between an i7 on a LGA 1366 socket & a LGA 775 socket Quad core processor.
IMHO there is no speed difference because both processors fire out upto 1333FSB & most motherboards are only capable of that top speed.
The only difference apart from the sockets is the price.
William Pastuszka Says:
June 1st, 2009

Actually the new i7 can be overclocked to reach speeds of 1600FSB so effectively would be faster especially with DDR3 ram.
Web Talk Says:
June 1st, 2009

Thanks William,
Overall I tend to agree with you. Lately processors tend to be almost alike to each other. In the end all processors will face the same issue: Atom dimensions. You can make a processors faster and faster…but you can not split an atom! A processor at 3.0 Ghz will be sufficent for all operative systems for a long, long time!