Next-Generation Intel PC Chips to Carry Intel Core Name
Intel has just released a press statement stating that new Intel chips will now formally carry the Core name.
The upcoming microarchitecture processor codenamed Nehalem will be formally branded as the new Intel Core Processor carrying the i7 identifier. There will be several new identifiers to differenciate different products in the future launched by Intel over the next coming years.
As we all know about the Nehalem chips are supposed to be a new achitecture with better power and heat management, the Extreme-class CPUs are still aimed at gamers, who generally spend more in return for better performance. Intel will however, use two logos on their newly named i7 that will be attached to boxes and machines to differenciate between the Extreme-class, or the regular desktop Core i7s.
The naming of the Intel Core i7 would be logical seeing that the new cores is the seventh major x86 CPU design. The Intel Pentium was the fifth.
Perhaps during the forth quater of the year, we will start to see mainstream desktop quad-cores, and a single Extreme chip. The processors are codenamed ‘Bloomfield’. I have blogged about Bloomfield here.
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