Nehalem Gets Named

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• Filed under: Tech News
• Date: Aug 10,2008

On Sunday Intel announced that its upcoming Nehalem processor family will carry the “Intel Core” name, with the first in the series carrying an “i7″ identifier. The “i7″ CPUs are scheduled to launch in Q4. Other, later identifiers will “complement” the “i7″ indentifier.

In the press release, Sean Maloney, Intel Corporation executive vice president and general manager, Sales and Marketing Group, said:

“The Core name is and will be our flagship PC processor brand going forward. Expect Intel to focus even more marketing resources around that name and the Core i7 products starting now.”

Intel is trying to simplify branding. In the past “it’s been Core Duo, Core Solo. Basically, we’re going to simplify Nehalem down to just Core,” said George Alfs, an Intel spokesperson.

Of course, that doesn’t explain what the “i7″ represents, and curious folk like myself are of course wondering.

The logo is shown above, but as shown to the left, there will be a separate black logo for the highest-end offering, the Extreme Edition.

Nehalem will be manufactured using Intel’s 45-nanometer process, and will be Intel’s first CPU to put all four cores on one piece of silicon, something that AMD already achieved with its Phenom and Opteron processors. It will be the focus of the upcoming Intel Developer Forum conference in San Francisco, which runs Aug. 19th – 21st.