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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Intel intros four more CPUs, slashes Q9550 price by 40%

Core i7 builder Intel Corporation has officially made some quite long-awaited changes to its Core 2 line-up. Intel's first move was to cut the price tag of its Core 2 Quad Q9550 (2.83 GHz) by a massive 40% from $530 to $316 (in 1000-unit tray quantities) followed by the introduction of four more processors.

Starting off small, the dual-core E7300, which has a core clock of 2.66 GHz and 3MB of L2 cache, has taken the $133 price point while the fastest dual-core around, the 3.33 GHz E8600 (1333 MHz FSB, 6MB L2 cache) entered the CPU battlefield carrying a $266 price tag. Also pirced ay $266 is the Q9400, a (45nm) quad-core CPU with a frequency of 2.66 GHz which features a 1333 MHz FSB and 6MB of L2 cache. Last but not least, the Q9650, which has a core clock of 3.0 GHz and 12MB of L2 cache, is sold by Intel for $316.

Later this month Intel should also release the 2.33 GHz Q8200 CPU.

Features and benefits

The high end just got higher. Introducing the latest additions to the Core 2 Quad family built using Intel's 45nm technology and hafnium-infused circuitry. These new processors deliver amazing performance and power efficiency. Whether it's encoding, rendering, editing, or streaming, make the most of your professional-grade multimedia applications with a PC powered by the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor. With four processing cores and up to 12MB of shared L2 cache¹ and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus, more intensive entertainment and more multitasking can bring a multimedia powerhouse to your house.
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency

Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance

Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth

Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors

Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications. Now improved even further on 45nm versions with Intel® HD Boost utilizing new SSE4 instructions for even better multimedia performance

Make highly threaded applications happy. Get in on the increasing number of highly threaded programs with quad-core technology from Intel. With four processing cores, an Intel Core 2 Quad processor-based PC will fuel more intensive entertainment and more media multitasking than ever.
source:intel.com