Intel Lynnfield CPU sample

Core i7 may be the talk of the town minus the AMD fanboy district, but Intel's Socket 1366 processors are just the top of the Nehalem iceberg. Around mid-2009 Intel will release the more affordable Lynnfield quad-core CPUs and although they are pretty far away, a quick photoshoot of a Lynnfield sample part has already been conducted.

Intel Lynnfield CPU

Made using the 45nm process, the Lynnfield CPUs some in a Socket LGA1160 package, have an integrated dual-channel DDR3 memory controller and 8MB of shared L3 cache just like their bigger brothers, the Bloomfields (Core i7). But, enough technical thingies, let the pictures do the talking.


A Lynnfield sample on the left, a 45nm Core 2 Quad (codename Yorkfield) in the middle and a Core i7 to the right

Intel Lynnfield CPU45nm Core 2 Quad (Yorkfield)

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