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| Intel's latest, fastest and most feature-rich generation of desktop CPUs, formerly codenamed Nehalem and now branded Core i7, is here. After more than a year of anticipation we finally have hardware to test, but can it live up to the hype? |
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| After impressing us with its new quad-core Phenom X4 processors earlier this month, AMD has followed up by finally delivering the industry's first triple-core x86 processors, which it originally promised last September . |
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| With its first desktop quad-core processor - arriving after delays of more than a year - AMD has finally abandoned the Athlon brand. The new Phenom range follows the initial launch of the Opteron-branded Barcelona server parts last month (web ID: 126845). |
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| In a moderately blatant attempt to fully steal Phenom's performance thunder, Intel has released samples of its Extreme edition CPU slated to be released at the beginning of 2008. |
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| Codenamed Penryn, the latest revision of Intel's Core 2 processor line is the first CPU to be based on the most advanced fabrication ever developed: the 45nm process. This is down 30% from the 65nm process Core 2 has been based on since its launch, giving further reductions in power consumption and transistor density. |
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| The Athlon brand is getting decidedly long in the tooth, but the current crop of dual-core, 64-bit, 65nm processors is anything but behind the times. |
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| Semprons have been around since 2004, but these latest revisions, based on the 65nm Sparta core, only started to emerge last summer. They're still single core, but fully 64-bit capable, and can be used in any Socket AM2 motherboard. |
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| Core 2 Duo is Intel's mainstream processor brand, and it finds its way into a wide range of devices, from gaming PCs to business laptops and even iMacs. |
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| The Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Extreme are the most powerful CPUs in Intel's line-up. As the name implies, Core 2 Quad processors all have four physical cores, while the Core 2 Extreme range includes one dual-core processor - the X6800 - as well as the quad-core QX6000 and QX9000 ranges. |
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| The Pentium, Intel's old premium brand, is now a little brother to the Core 2 Duo, and a new dual-core Celeron provides parallel processing on an even leaner budget. These processors are all based on the same 65nm Allendale core used in low-end Core 2 Duo processors, with the same thermal design power of 65W. |
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