14 DAY TRIAL // Intel Corporation, the largest chip manufacturer in the world, officially announced the launch of its latest generation central processing unit, dubbed Core i7, stating that this is the most advanced processor the company had ever unveiled. The Intel Core i7 family of processors is based on the next-generation Nehalem architecture, the most sophisticated in the world, as the maker says, and packs new technologies meant to boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput. According to the Santa Clara chip manufacturer, the new CPU can boost performance with up to 40 percent over existing products without increasing power consumption.
The Core i7 chip has been highly expected by the entire IT industry, being presented as a technical marvel. The processor topped a new world record of 117 for the SPECint_base_rate2006 benchmark test that measures the performance of a CPU, marking a historical moment for the industry, since this was the first time ever for a single chip to score more than 100 points.
“Intel has delivered the fastest desktop processor on Earth to the most demanding users on Earth, the ones who are using their PCs for video, gaming and music,” said Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. “When you couple what is Intel's biggest leap in chip design with other incredible innovations like Intel's solid state drives, the Core i7 processor has redefined the computer of tomorrow.”
The chip has been packed with a lot of new technologies that help it deliver leveraged performance, including Intel's unique Turbo Boost Technology meant to adjust the clock speed of one or more of the four individual processing cores to boost performance, without increasing power consumption. The Intel Quickpath Technology is meant for speeding the transfer of computer bits and bites in and out of the processor, while the Hyper-Threading Technology allows for multiple computing threads to run simultaneously on the processor.
Immersive 3-D games will also register unrivaled faster performance from the Core i7 processors. On both the 3DMark Vantage CPU physics and AI tests, popular industry computer benchmarks that measure gaming performance, the new Intel chip performs 40 percent faster than its predecessors. Thus, the gaming experience will come closer to reality than ever.