Time in IT-industry is moving inexorably quickly. It would seem that the most recently announced the newest Intel Nehalem architecture, and shops began the first family of Bloomfield processors Core i7. But it is not passed, and a few months, as not stopping there, Intel has continued to improve manufactured CPU, Core i7 moving to a new stepping and making life an updated model line. Today, according to Roadmap Company, is coming not so much turn a cosmetic upgrade of existing solutions, but rather the transfer of a segment of Intel processors on an innovative architecture.

Submitted last year, Bloomfield was a true high-end solution. Judge for yourself ─ four full kernel (and with Hyper-Threading ─ eight virtual), 8 MB cache array L3, three-integrated memory controller newest standard DDR3, wide tire QPI, a fairly high frequency for such a massive crystal ... All of Nehalem was designed to make the best performance (of course, not forgetting about the important energy efficiency). However, the resulting almost uncompromising processor with the highest productivity and were obvious shortcomings. Of course, they did not lie in the technological plane.

Is not difficult to guess that the Core i7 simply cost too much to become a truly large-scale processor. Even without taking into account the current unfavorable world economic situation, the value of the platform with the CPU was very high for mainstream PCs. Enthusiasts and those advanced users who really needed a solid gain speed Core i7, for example, in multi work without hesitation gave their preference for the new platform, despite the high cost of motherboards based on the single-supported chipset X58 and sets the standard memory DDR3.

Most buyers simply do not see much practical sense to overpay for not evident in normal daily activities are the advantages in favor of cheaper, common, time-tested and has excellent performance Core 2 Duo, or a good balanced and inexpensive Phenom II from rival AMD. In general, no surprise there is no ─ when positioning the new processor, no error there has been no; Intel and does not aim at the mass segment, the expansion of Nehalem architecture originally planned in the sector is the most expensive and high-performance PC (do not need to mention the servers, etc . . . etc.).

However, this was not an end in Intel. The cost of developing a new CPU is not able to pay off only the sales of expensive Quad Core i7. As with any other forms of modern architecture, the introduction of Nehalem only started with high-end computers. The emergence of several simpler and cheaper CPU was just a matter of time. It was obviously aware that the new processors to the middle-end will be codenamed Lynnfield, have a different design (LGA1156 instead LGA1366) and assume a certain architectural innovations. Anticipated name Core i5, however, was not confirmed, but all other characteristics come to us to test quite match expectations.