With very much anticipation with the new platform that Intel has made with the Core 7i chipsets with the QPI memory bandwidth interface and the bumping of the older FSB type, greatly improving the performance in memory latency and a faster transfer from the processor and from the memory modules.
Now with the 45nm fabrication process is now looking to be a new chapter for the Intel Company and start with the new 32nm fabrication process and making the prices and die sixe even smaller and performance looking to be improved also with newer instructions and also the introduction of the new mainstream process that includes an inboard GPU for a non-discreet graphics option for those people who want a normal new system to handle medium graphics computation and movie decoding with an acceptable price in the coming months after its release. Being called the Westmere chipset having the new fabrication process and having in the high end eight cores in one die and double the threads for bigger bandwidth per core, plus the already said mainstream core with four core and eight threads as the same as the current core 7i but with the GPU built-in and not having to care about a separate graphics card to power up your system with colourful displays and with the advantage of onboard GPU it uses far less power that a running GTX216 or a 4870 1GB and even there is a possibility of Hybrid crossfire or SLI so you can turn on and off the discrete graphics when needed giving more space for the Northbridge for doing the discrete rather than the onboard more often when programmed to display and a large shift from the Geforce 9500 series onboard chips for the previous Core 2 Duo’s.
But this is a long way to go, the 32nm factories are planned to be built in and around the US and flooding $7billion for the productions and funding of the facilities and creating more than a thousand new jobs, it is a good timing that Intel gave something to do, but for the availability will be in the third quarter of this year and all of the product range that Intel has promised will be available lucky next fall, even I can’t wait to make my own system with onboard GPU’s plus eight cores running in its full potential and giving performance in around about 22% more yield in overall scores and memory scores and latencies from the current Core 7i so we could think a real shrink on the physical architecture may improve the cost of these chips even more and also the transfer and sending data decreases the timings and also faster load times, so we could dream of new improvements in the newer mainstream platform for the core 7i.
