Intel with showing of the new Nehalem processor and dubbed as the Intel’s Core 7i processor, with a new pin count of about 1366 connector pins in the motherboard and the CPU, to improve and widen up the lanes in the processor to the board. With the Intel Core 7i sporting 4 to eight cores with no exception to the dual core chips, with 45nm architecture fabrication and with the same frequency in the main-stream processors are about 1333MHz fsb and with the high-end processors to be in the top 1600MHz FSB. With the same frequencies and makes to its predecessor, with the Intel Core 2, but being much larger and have a pin count of 1366, they have increased the parallelism of the core and giving it 33% more micro-ops at the same time.
With the improved with the cache sub-systems and also the synchronization for better caching transfer in where’s Intel’s core 2 Duo doesn’t. With the change of Caching in the memory of the CPU, they tend to increase the stepping, by adding the TBL stepping process to enable faster utilization codes or tasks when the system is Idle. With the use of triple Channel DDR3 memory for a big in a maximum memory usage on the X58 about 32GB’s, with six ports on the tri-channel, will be used in the new resource hogs of applications like the IE8 and also newer applications.
With the Intel core 7i with 731 million transistors in the Quad core, with integrated graphics processor to battle it out with AMD’s fusion, with no more fsb to the Northbridge for the memory and now going to the CPU with Quickpath interconnect, and the corresponding memory caching are the L1 is a 32Kb in each core, 256KB in L2 caching the L3 2-3Mbs to be shared by all cores before leaving the CPU.
For the variants of the Intel Core 7i is uncertain in some people, you would expect the main-stream processors with the frequency between the 2.8GHz to 3.0GHz, and with the extreme version is in the top 3.1GHz and upwards. With some speculation that in the few months in the beginning of the Core 7i is that they’re going to have the first half of the production going to be 45nm fabrication and then going to the 32nm fabrication manufacturing. But for certain is that there will see improvements in memory speed and also synchronization and latencies in the system.
Support for Intel Core i7 processors with QPI 6.4GT/s
Support for 3-channel DDR3-1333 up to 24GB
DrMOS equipped on CPU PWM, QPI, and Northbridge
Support GreenPower & APS (Active Phase Switching) system
DrMOS dedicated heat-pipe design
Dual Hardware RAID system
Dual LAN onboard support Network Teaming
Core i7 is almost here, but that will come as a surprise to no one, as potential release dates have been hovering around rumor-ville for months. The official response came last month, during IDF Taipei. There, Intel told the world that we would see Core i7 before the end of November, although no definitive street date was given.
Today's article will serve as a preview into what to expect from Core i7 from a performance perspective. This will become the first of a few different articles that we'll be posting in the weeks to come, which will target more specific areas of Nehalem and its platform. So, consider today's look as a good way to whet your appetite. There'll be more good stuff en route.
QuickPath Interconnect
One of the most important new features is the QuickPath Interconnect, or QPI for short. "Interconnect" explains its purpose quite well. It offers a direct link to other system components, most notably the memory and X58 chipset, and though it replaces the typical front-side bus, it serves a similar purpose. Also like the FSB, different i7 models will have different QPI ratings, with the top-end 965 running at 6.4GT/s, and the two below it running at 4.8GT/s.
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