11/18/2008

Intel launches its new ''Core i7'' processor

The largest maker of computer chips in the world, Intel, began today with the delivery of the first processors of the new family "Nehalem" according to an article published today by the daily "Wall Street Journal."

With this powerful chip, Intel seeks to relaunch the downcast demand, affected by the financial crisis, and it's looking to bet against its smaller competitor, AMD.

The processors "Nehalem" provide, among other things, safety independent quad-cores and are designed to have a superior performance in personal computers used for games, for his good performance with images and video.

Here is a diagram of this powerful processor: Versions of the processor formerly known as "Core i7" will be available for use in servers during the first quarter of 2009, as planned.

Intel shocked last week the stock exchanges to raise awareness of massive cuts in their forecasts for sales and generated fears of a global economic decline. The demand of the maker of chips fell in all regions and market segments.

According to the information from the management technology, Intel will reduce its investments this year at $ 100 million to 2800 million dollars.


"One is recovering from a recession with products of tomorrow, not those of today," said Intel executive Sean Maloney to the "Wall Street Journal."

With the new generation of processors, Intel could continue to escape the danger of losing market share compared to AMD, which launched a few days ago its new high-performance processor "Shanghai", while presented a large list of important customers.


In tough competition with Intel, AMD announced the delivery of the new chip scheduled for next year.

A few years ago, AMD had managed to temporarily gain an advantage in the market for servers that he had been allowed to take away market share from its competitor. But according to estimates from market researcher IDC, Intel dominates the market for processors with a 81 percent market share.


For Intel, the new family "Nehalem" represents an important development that took place during the past year. The heart of this processor are four cores of security that can work performing calculations in an independent manner.

Previously we was fascinated when the dual core made their appearance, but now four cores are awesome!!

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