Intel Talks Core i7 975 Extreme, Computex, Westmere and More

Dan Snyder is a Technical Public Relations Manager specializing in high-end customer products such as Core i7 Extreme Edition and Intel SSDs. Dan began his Intel career as an engineer at one of the company's largest manufacturing and assembly facilities in Arizona. In 1994, he moved to Santa Clara for a technical marketing position specializing in Intel's mobile computing processors. From 1996 to 1999, Dan led global marketing initiatives with OEMs and retailers for the Pentium family of processors before relocating to Europe for five years in technical marketing. Dan has an engineering degree from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford.

Dan from Intel here to talk about some of the goodies we showcased at Computex this week. In my 15 years at Intel, both as an engineer and now in tech PR, I've always been struck by the constant churn off the treadmill and how our factories keep producing faster and better products. Take the Core i7-975 Extreme CPU that we just announced, for example. It's a screamer, and it gets all the goodness of a new process called "stepping" that implements continuous improvements and tweaks to the architecture, not to mention a little clock.

Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition overclocked to 4.1GHz

HotHardware's test shows how well it overclocks, and both the i7-975 and i7-950 come in at exactly the same price as the parts they replace. I'm constantly racking my brains for other industries besides technology that offer nearly doubling performance every few years for about the same price. Hell, if that were true of the airline industry, my last vacation to France would have been a 10 minute, $10 flight.

Intel Westmere system in action

While I have your attention, I know that many enthusiasts (that's YOU) appreciate the performance of the Core i7 but are looking for more cost-effective, high-performance solutions. Well, we also talked about the "next Nehalem," codenamed Lynnfield, at Computex, due out in the second half of this year. This is combined with less expensive chipsets, which means less expensive boards, which in turn means less expensive systems. Our executives also reiterated that our next-generation 32nm CPU product “Clarkdale” is on track for production in the fourth quarter of this year. We also publicly unveiled our 32nm processor family, codenamed "Westmere", which is expected to go into production in the fourth quarter of this year. These processors will feature our first 32nm process implementation (meaning faster, smaller, more efficient) and graphics integrated into the processor package. Stay tuned for more information at IDF this fall. Lots of good news and things to look forward to this year in CPU land.

We would also like to know what's on your mind and if you have questions for Intel... I can't guarantee I can answer everything, we have to keep some secrets hehe... but we'll do what we can!

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