[TheInquirer.com Processors] Nehalems begin rolling out - Core i7 is just the start

News · 29-08-2008, 02:11 PM

Nebojsa Novakovic , Monday 11 August 2008. 12:20:00

Blooming fields on Route P7 to Gainestown

SO THE INITIAL desktop Nehalem became Core i7. It is a bit of a surprise - something like "Core 3" fit the purpose better if you ask this writer. What could be the root of this new name? The seventh generation of a CPU family has always been a watershed for Intel. A decade ago, when P6 was Pentium Pro, P7 was supposed to be "Merced" later known as the infamous Itanium. We all know that Itanium didn't exactly prove to be a replacement or successor to the X86 nor will it ever be. In the meantime, the wayward uberclocked offspring called Pentium 4, or internally coded as P68, was also, with the advent of Core family, pushed into history....

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