Intel's 'Nehalem' Now Officially Core i7

[delusion77]

iDont like having iPut iNfront of everything, but iDont really care about the name, iCare about performance.

iWould have preferred to see something like Intel NH_[x if extreme or not][## for desktop/mobile][# "power level" here]

For ex. "Intel NHx 109" would be the top-of-the-line desktop CPU
and say the "Intel NH 112" being the bottom-of-the-line mobile CPU
u could also have like a "Intel NH 107" as a desktop cpu that would take the place of the q6600

 

[lephute]

Well this is what I think. I don't expect anyone to agree with me but
the "i" in i7 would stand for Intel and "7" would be for nehalem. Nehalem is 7 letters. I would figure "i7" is easier to say/remember than Nehalem.

 

[cynewulf]

Assuming 7 is the 7th generation of x86 chips as others have said, my guess would be 'Iteration 7'. Not that it matters.

 

[Guest]

Anonymous#66:
Intel pentium (1)
garbaldy beloved patriot (2-6)
i7 (it looks reallllllly cool)
EOF

 

[grieve]

I like the name, better then Pentium 23742354


I for Intel... LOL

 

[aznguy0028]

[citation][nom]jmods[/nom]to Brashen thanks for the laugh on my lunch break! iRape you and iSodomize you would be great names for what the big boys in the Tech industry are doin to consumers lately.the laugh made all the average pc user idiots Downloading WinXP anti-virus 2008 and Vista antivirus 2009 bareable today. Seriously how the #@$%* can you be tricked by the obviously fake software[/citation]

WHAT?! you mean WinXP anti-virus 2008 and Vista AV 2009 isn't real? -sarcasm-

 

[Farrwalker]

Could i7 be appropriate looking at the history of Intel chips?

Just off the top of my head I think they produced the 8088, 286, 386, 486, Pentium in many versions, then the Core chips. That is 6 different chips. Now they are naming a 7th different chip; therefore, i7.

Did I forget some chips?

 

[ZootyGray]

an7i7rus7

They have you all trained like good little doggies. They care not for you. (antitrust) They have led you all to this. And they will take a gig of $$$ again and they will train you in model numbers and on it goes. And blind you to alternative thought. (antitrust) And you cheer that you are owned like a pet. They create confusion so most won't know. Me, I don't want to know.

Read the last book - behold the purple whore riding on the beast with i7 horns, and all fear to speak against it.

Their teachers are among you. They are first to speak before you can think for yourself. Listen and you will see.

an7i7rus7
i7
an7i7rus7

I will not support n7eI
.

 

[Guest]

Sounds good to me. The main reason I went with AMD is the architecture; glad to see Intel is stepping up and using it too. The 133MHz FSB is lower than AMD's 200MHz; yet, they manage to surpass AMD with the core clock @around 3GHz matched with the new architecture.

 

[nukemaster]

The advantage to sticking without the IMC up to now has been the ability to use different ram with different chipsets. It has played out well if you ask me.

When the A64 came out it was a huge success, just like the core2. Its a game of leap frog, nothing more.

 

[Guest]

Well,

I think intel learn how to named the i7 from nokia. that's the: you shouldn't make any sense at all at numbering, sometimes you go forward, sometimes you go backward. and sometimes small number better than big number.

The purpose of this is to confuse customer, to make customer don't know how to compare product, and to make it hard to direct comparison of a product. This way intel can make more money (as nokia does).

 

[Guest]

another think that struck into my mind were this joke (I don't really remember the joke):

what is the last hole number in golf for intel programmer, it's hole 17 (since '0' is the first number).

so i7 could mean 8 cores...
cores 0 - cores 7 (8 cores)

 

[Guest]

I love the "i"s!!!!!!!!!!!!

iLovin' iT.

 

[Guest]

i386
i486
i586
i686

and now...the i786

It makes perfect sense...

 

[warnereg]

I have heard (this makes a lot of sense) that i7 stands for 7 independent threads, meaning you can run up to 7 programs each running on their own thread without interuption, meaning faster performance.

 

[Guest]

Interesting but there's allot more to say...I found this site describing it very nice: http://hardwaremanager.blogspot.com/. It's note a very impressing review but surely can make anyone understand Intel's new baby