Tuesday, September 8, 2009

{ Intel's "Lynnfield" Core i5/Core i7 Launch}

Info and pricing on Intel's latest CPU launch

Today, Intel announced the new Lynnfield Core i5 750, Core i7 860, and the Core i7 870 which are running at 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz, and 2.93GHz respectively. Intel also lists prices at $196, $284, and $562 respectively.

Lynnfield processors are built using a 45nm manufacturing process, have a 296 mm2 die size (774 million transistors), and use the LGA-1156 socket. All three of the new processors have a TDP of 95W. Both the Core i7 860 and Core i7 870 make use of Hyper Threading which allows them to processor 8 threads -- the Core i5 750 comes with Hyper Threading disabled.(More)

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