Intel i9 Gulftown First Look Review
Well, the folks over at PCLab.pl apparently aren’t too concerned about the NDA on Intel’s upcoming i9 Gulftown processor as they have posted a full review this morning. Results look promising but it will still be a while before you can get your hands on one.
The Intel processors currently available on the market are members of two families: Nehalem and Penryn, and all are made using the 45-nanometer process technology. The Nehalem processors are Core i7 for the LGA 1366 socket (codename: Bloomfield), Core i7 and Core i5 for the LGA1156 socket (codename: Lynnfield) as well as the laptop-dedicated Core i7 (codename: Clarksfield). Later this year and early next year, Intel plans to launch the Westmere processor family. The Westmere codename stands for all circuits, which, based on the Tick-Tock strategy, will be manufactured using the same architecture as Nehalem, but using 32 nanometer processing. The first ones to land in the stores will probably be the Clarkdale processors – dual-core systems with integrated graphics cores designed for the LGA1156 socket. With time, the Westmere family will grow in view of the advent of laptop-dedicated dual-cores with integrated graphics the Arrandale and Gulftown processors. And it is none other than the Gulftown that is the central figure of today’s article.
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