Intel® Core™ i7 Processor (Nehalem)
The latest bit of hype from Intel (November 2008)
UPDATE: Late summer 2009 - Intel announce "scaled down" i5 processors
Now available (November 2008) even at TigerDirect
- Bloomfield - the code-name of the day - successor to "wharfefdale" (I have one of these!)
However, this seems to being touted as the Nehalem (maybe this is the processor and Bloomfield is the platform as Montevina is to Penryn) - L3 Cache -- there is always room for another layer! - If you want to claim that you have a new caching techinque - give it a new number!
- QPI - QuickPath Interconnect - "doing away with the FSB" - 6.4G T/sec (sounds a bit like what AMD were saying!)
- Intel Core i7 965 Processor Extreme Edition BX80601965 - 3.20GHz, 8MB L3 ---- for $1,350 it should be fast! ($2,000 with a compatible motherboard!)
- LGA 1633 Socket
Still based on 45nm process technology in a quad.
L3 Cache
A step up from the L2 cache we all know and love?
L3 cache seems to refer to a 3rd level cache that is "on-board" the processor die. There seem to be terms on-chip and on-die - The i7 seems to share the L3 cache with all the cores.
DDR3
i7 uses this exclusively.
Links
- Intel® Core™ i7 Processor - on the Intel Website
- Intel Core i7 920 Processor BX80601920 - 2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 4.8GT/s QPI - Tiger Direct
- Hardware Canucks - review of the Intel Core i7 "Nehalem" 920, 940 & 965 XE Processor
- L3 Cache on WikiP (in entry for CPU_Cache
