News Watch: 08 In Review

Following the Core i7 (Nehalem) launch yesterday, here are two places for those looking for the top Intel news announcements and achievements this year. The first is Pat Gelsinger’s blog from a couple of weeks ago around what Intel’s Hafnium-based, … Continue reading

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Intelligent Performance Inside Intel’s Core i7

I first met Stephen Gunther at an “Eco-Nehalem” briefing in San Francisco in October. He and his team are redefining what it means to be “power-wise” with the new processor design codenamed Nehalem, which will hit the market starting November … Continue reading

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A High-Five For High-K Reinvented Transistors

Today marks a major milestone: the one-year anniversary of shipping the world’s first ever Intel processors manufactured on our 45 nanometer process–based on an entirely new ‘high-k metal gate’ transistor formula. And what a year it has been for this … Continue reading

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Through the Eyes of an Energy-Wise Intel Core i7 Architect

I got to meet Sr. Principal Engineer Ronak Singhal and Steve Gunther on the day they shared their “eco-wise” insights about the new Nehalem microprocessor architecture before a gathering of technical press in San Francisco last month. With the IT … Continue reading

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And the Winner is . . . The Internet

There’s an interesting post today on Arianna Huffington’s blog. She declares the Internet the winner in this year’s U.S. Presidential race. I couldn’t agree more. From the amount of laptops and internet-connected mobile devices to the real time results sliced … Continue reading

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Core i7 Reviews – A Word on Wordle

In advance of our Core i7 launch coming in a couple of weeks, we sent out hundreds of pre-production processors to some of ther world’s top computer reviewers. You can find their thoughts by visiting their sites, or searching Core … Continue reading

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