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Finally, Intel for the provision of the last update the basis of the processors, and is a major. I7 called the kernel, which also officially this month, but a final, official date has not yet been determined. (Most have speculated that November 17 is the day of arrival, but I have reports, which officially opened on next weekend.) However, you begin to see the comments of members of the Presidium of the basis I7 - systems of tomorrow, so that the time is near.

It is the first fundamental I7.

Formerly known under the code name Nehalem (often ill-Nahal) is a major update of the family of Core 2 were the main findings and in one case of standard components of desktop and notebook computers since 2006. I7 are initially only in desktop computers, however. Server and the portable versions are still at work.

The architecture, the new chip is said to the biggest changes since 1995, the Pentium Pro. It is easy to see why: There is a lot of new features and dust expected something more on the market performance. Example: The front-side bus (a long time, a bottleneck in the design of the CPU) no longer exists, replaced by Intel QuickPath, which now connects to the CPU I / O functions treatment. I / O performance in the context of this model should be improved to a huge 10-times.

The first models are all quad-core designs, but can I7 up to eight cores on a single chip. Drawings, which are capable of coming in 2009. With all the designs, what the kernel and drivers are based on a single, in contrast to some of the first multi-core processors.

Memory controller functions expanded, with the support of the DIMM slots in groups of three instead of two: Wait to 3 GB of RAM and 6 GB options in the community alternatives.

Hyper-Threading, a pioneer in the technological era Pentium 4, is back. In theory, making the efficiency of multitasking, but with this huge can die, it will be difficult, what the difference back Hyper-Threading benchmarkin without some imagination. ”

Although rarely the examination of desktop computers, I’m definitely hoping for the first I7 laptop on my desk. No ETA on the evil, unfortunately. Stay tuned.