Analysts say Nehalem chips are silly and designed for Windows 7

For the Intel Nehalem chip, which will be available at the end of this month, an industry analyst who has the opportunity to try out the machines running on this processor early is said to be “silly” (originally 'blindingly fast').

Steve Smith, vice president and business director of Intel's digital business division, told Computerworld on Monday that the first Nehalem chip, officially known as Core i7, will be a quad-core for desktops for high-end users and gamers. Processor.

He pointed out that on the day Intel officially released the chip, seven PC manufacturers will simultaneously ship Nehalem-based desktops.

Intel has started to Hardware manufacturers provide engineering samples of this chip.

Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle said that he has been experimenting with a desktop computer based on this quad-core chip offered by Intel for some time. The Hyper-Threading feature is turned on, which is actually equivalent to an eight-core chip. “It's very fast, really fast,” Enderle said. “It’s silly and silly.”

Analyst also refers to This chip has a significant improvement in energy saving. It is very quiet and produces very little heat. It does not turn my office into a sauna," he added. "Many people are Worried about its energy consumption. For high-performance products, it is really important to be able to save energy.”

Enderle also pointed out that Core i7 is designed to match Microsoft's upcoming Windows. 7 operating system together. He said that the system that Intel provided to him for this computer is Windows Vista, but the chip designer has already got the new features of Windows 7 during development.

“ Compared to Vista, companies are more inclined to upgrade to Windows 7, & rdquo; he added. "This may be a good thing, because Nehalem has already considered Windows 7 at design time. When Windows 7 goes on the market, these chips will At least on the high-end desktops and workstations of the enterprise.

Nehalem technology is a quad-core processor with 45nm production process. This new architecture is Block design, the official said that this can easily change between dual-core to eight-core.

Core series chips have been added to dual-threaded technology at design time, and use Intel's QuickPath connection technology and include a three Layered Cache Architecture.

Steve Smith said eight-core Nehalem is scheduled to be available in the second half of 2009, while dual-core and quad-core Nehalem chips for laptops will ship at this time.