Intel Announces the Official Name Core i7 for Nehalem Processors

Submitted by lalit on August 11, 2008 - 9:44am.

Intel on Sundry officially announced that the next generation Nehalem architecture based processors would be called Core i7. The present generation of Intel processors lineup is called Core 2 Solo/Duo/Quad. Nehalem is Intel’s seventh major architecture since the introduction of 8086 in 1990s. The first chips to use the Core i7 name will be the Nehalem based mainstream desktop processors that will have speeds up to 3.2GHz. The mainstream processors will use the regular blue logo. The Extreme Edition processors, known for their extra features like speed multiplier and overclocking will use the darker black/gray logo. Intel will start shipping the Core i7 processors for desktop in fall of 2008; mobile processer will ship in first quarter of 2009. Workstation and sever chips will continue using the Xeon logo.