Intel’s Core i7 : better or much better?

The new Intel’s Core i7 chip which is based on a design code-named Nehalem is planned for production in the fourth quarter of this year, and ultimately will be used for more than  just desktop machines and computer servers.

At the Intel Developer Forum conference that was held in San Francisco on Tuesday, Pat Gelsinger, head of Intel’s digital enterprise group, demonstrated computers running core i7 and stated that Intel is counting on the proliferation of mobile devices : handheld computers, super-slim laptops and smart phones. The latest chip design will conserve more power than its current processors and it will deliver vastly faster graphics images.

Also with Centrino 2 collection of chips used in notebook PCs Intel promised longer battery life but the new high-speed wireless connection technologies such as WiMax could limit the battery life even more:
“As much as we get more efficient in how we use the battery we’re always finding more ways to leech off the battery,” ( Matt Eastwood, analyst at market researcher IDC ). “A lot of these technologies that will be living on the periphery like WiMax are going to be pretty battery hungry.”

The new Nehalem’s design will allow for microprocessors that can boost the speed of individual cores of a chip — or electronic brains — in response to the workload demand by diverting power from other parts of the chip that aren’t being used and it will boost the speed at which data can be shunted from memory in the computer to the microprocessor and the idea was that you’ll have the memory-controller function into the microprocessor, rather than having the memory and the processor on two different chips. This technology was introduced for the first time by AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.) in 2003.

All of Intel’s processors will be based on the Nehalem microarchitecture starting in 2009.

Source: Reuters

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