Core i7-920 Specifications

As you probably know by now the Intel Core series of processors is not just a rehash of its previous Core 2 Duo technology. Instead it uses a completely unique design that embraces much of the new Nehalem technology fully described in "First the Tick, Now the Tock: Next Generation IntelMicroarchitecture (Nehalem)". Intel has gone to great lengths to avoid having their newest product entitled "just another revision" by their consumer market. They have shown their confidence in the Intel Core series by making this product launch the biggest and arguably the best in their history, even in a time where the ecoWith the Core i7 series Intel has produced their first true, native quad-core processor which incorporates multiple cores on a single processor die. This is unlike the existing Core 2 Quads which feature two dual core processor dies mounted on a single piece of silicon. The Core i7 processors also eliminate the need for the Northbridge chipset to manage system memory and link it to the processor with integrated, on die memory controller which links the processor directly to the system memory. You might be asking yourself: Isn't this design is eerily similar to the AMD Phenom? From this limited point of reference you would be right. nomy is less than prosperous.