The launch of Core i7 brings Intel in the spotlight once again. Based on the 45-nanometer production technology, Intel’s Core i7 will be almost four to six times faster than its current platform. The 45-nm chip utilizes a smaller circuitry than the previous 65-nm version, making it faster and cheaper.
The Core i7 chips are based on Nehalem which has incorporated some of the major design improvisation in areas such as integrated memory control and power management. The design of Core i7 puts an end to the Front Side Bus (FSB) feature and introduces a new Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) bus along with a three channel memory controller that supports 1066MHz DDR3 memory integrated on-chip. The technology of Hyper-Threading is being reintroduced in the first three quad Core i7 chips and it is being believed that this will increase the processing speed in a major way. The Hyper-Threading technology ensures simultaneous running of multiple computing threads thus allowing it to perform two things at once. This results in the Core i7 quad-core processor delivering 8-threaded performance. This will increase the available bandwidth of the processor and drastically reduce the lag time before the CPU begins executing the next instruction.
With the Intel Quickpath Technology, the Core i7 processor ensures the doubling of the memory bandwidth thus speeding the computer bits and bytes transfer in and out of the processor. An important feature in the new processor is the Turbo mode, which can tune 20 different parameters for processor performance optimization. The Turbo Boost Technology enhances performance to match the workloads. The clock speed of the individual processing cores gets automatically adjusted by the Turbo Boost, and this boosts the performance without affecting the power consumption. With this move Intel primarily aims at strengthening its desktop product line to stay ahead in the competitive high-end desktop market.
The Core i7 incorporates the latest Intel power-saving technologies by enabling desktops getting into sleep states.
Gaming had never been of so much fun before. At the same power consumption, the Core i7 speeds immersive games, video editing, and other computer activities by up to 40 percent. To make games real and fast the Core i7 uses 8 threads with advanced artificial intelligence. The technological specifications of Intel Core i7 include an 8 MB level 3 cache and three channels of DDR3 memory to ensure better memory performance. The overspeed protection has been removed to allow customers increase the chip’s speed. Some of the other new features are the new SSE4 instructions, Dynamic Energy Management, three level cache with a shared 8MB L3 cache, and improved branch prediction. It is being said that the Core i7 processor is the fastest processor on the planet.
The Core i7 places four cores on a silicon piece known as the monolithic die. The earlier Intel quad core chips placed together two dual-core die. The launch of Core i7 puts Intel far ahead of its rival AMD. On the desktop platform AMD doesn’t have a competitive chip as of now. Until a new product launch, Intel will be the only option for consumers aiming at the latest chips for their computers. However, it is increasingly being felt in the computing industry that the Core i7 may have a tough road ahead. The market is low and it is being anticipated that most of the gamers and gigahertz geeks will keep out of it on account of the financial pinch. But others in the industry watching the market closely are of the view that this move will infuse the much needed demand in the market.
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