| | By C Shanti @ Monday, August 11, 2008 6:31 AM
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| | The whole world knows that the original Nehalem idea from Intel was shelved several years ago because it was based on the Pentium 4 and just couldn't be done.
We believe it was that Mike Magee over at the INQster that first revealed this.
However, Intel doesn't mind re-using code names, and came up with a wizard wheeze to sort of copy an AMD design, which it codenamed Nehalem too.
Now Intel has decided to call Nehalem 'Core', a name which is used for its notebook chips already. Nehalem will be called Core i7, although what the 7 means is open to some speculation.
The Core i7 chips will be released towards the end of this year and will have four cores - we do hope you're following this. Intel is apparently attempting to simplify the branding of its processors and this is a step towards doing that.
But things are not simple, because Intel already has Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo processors. It is not going to call Nehalem Core 3 Quad we don't think, which we guess is something of a blessing.
A microprocessor is the brain of a computer. X
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