Seems fine, can't wait to see what nehalem's going to be like.

I wonder how much the "extreme" editions will cost Hopefully amd comes out with their new cpus also.

I am so sick of the "i" everything since the iPod. I am certainly tired of Apple over using it as well as everyone else. Stop the madness!!!! Do something different, now I have to listen to 4 years of this crap from Intel too. I am not an Apple hater either I have a MBP and Iphone and love them.

iHate it

"Core 3" would have made more sense, and would have been something consumers would easily identify as being an improvement on Core 2.

I think Intel's taking nomenclature lessons from Nvidia.

Core 4 would have made more sense since its a quad core processor. Core 3 wouldnt have made any sense. And the QXXX series being called core 2 makes no sense either since they have 4 cores. What are these guys smoking?

Quit Freakin Bitchin!! My God you guys are a bunch of whiners who gives a dead rat's feces what they call it I don't care if it's iRape you or isodomize you as long as it's a good product!!

Anyone know around what Ghz they will be?

"I" has load of connotations Idiot, Imbecile, Ignorant, Immature, Irrational, Impulsive, Intermittent, Incomprehensible, Inconclusive, Ironic, and the ever popular Illogical (Mr. Spock).
I7 Inherently means the 7th generation cpus.. along the lines of a 786 model.. 8086,8286,8386,8486,8586(pentium),8686, now 8786.. But along similar features, power, and mhz specs as the 6th generation processor (core-2's)

Thanks to AMD, the Pentium line-up had a vast run of success. Multi-Core & multithreading computing on a single chip was not needed by most home consumers (until recently). On mhz note, we're talking about computers beginning in the 4.4ghz native mode (2x 2.2ghz) going all the way up to 6.6 (4x2.4ghz) and beyond overclocked/extreme cooled & tweaked. The next level of performance increases will be when a single chip (quad core extreme) breaks into the 10-12ghz native mode not overclocked with no heat issues (3.33ghz to 4ghz per core--much in the same way hard drives now have 333-375gb per platter hard drives).

However, the top of the line chips will be mighty expensive if AMD doesn't come out with some blockbuster competitive chips. Even though these kinds of chips are in the R&D pipeline, the economy has got Intel & Amd looking much like GM & Ford.

Core 2 stands for the second generation of the Core architecture, not the number of cores. The "duo" and "quad" suffixes are what determine the number of cores. Pay attention. The 7 in "i7" most likely means that this is Intel's 7th generation of x86 chips.

What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

It will be a rose and readily indentified by its smell.

Actually, DumbBytch, Core 3 would make sense. There are already plenty of quad-core CPUs, and there will be dual-core nehalems. Core 2 is the second generation of the "Core" processor, so clearly, retard, the next in line would have been Core 3. Go kill yourself, and don't reproduce.

um as far as i know the reason that the core duo line was called duo was because they were based on a 2 core architecture, where their quad core was actually 2 dual core on the same die which caused debate about its quad core name because technically it was a dual, dual core

with the nahelem architectuare, the whole thing is based on a single core architecture as far as i know so you could have a 1,2,3,4,8 or whatever amount of cores you wanted where the "quad" core would truely fit the definition of a quad core processor

so intel calling it a "CORE" does make sense since it is based on a single core architecture instead of a dual core architecture which is "CORE DUO"

and for my own addition of thought, intel has never done me wrong so far and i cant wait to see what nahelem is capable of

Im reserving my judgement until i know what the hell i7 means. However i do have doubts that it will really mean anything definitive. I hope that the new naming will help differentiate abit, but i guess we will just have to see.

to Brashen thanks for the laugh on my lunch break! iRape you and iSodomize you would be great names for what the big boys in the Tech industry are doin to consumers lately.

the laugh made all the average pc user idiots Downloading WinXP anti-virus 2008 and Vista antivirus 2009 bareable today. Seriously how the #@$%* can you be tricked by the obviously fake software

I can already see the advertising now: Windows 7 running on the i7! 7 times the pow-pow-power!

And god help you if you try to run Windows 7 on an "underpowered" Q9450.

if you look at it carefully "i7" upside-down 4 punch out.
Am I the only one who notices this?

the i7 means 7ghz.... no brainer !

now to seriousness... i'm hoping my newly built q9450 system will remain future-proof for at least a few years.

and just to be clear... i'm not talking about 2 cores @ 3.5ghz = 7ghz.... thats not how I see it unless my computer is 12ghz...

core 2 was confusing as hell.

Why not just have one fricken code name... the "Nahalem"... you know, like Ford and all the auto manufacturers do. We all know what a Ford Mustang is, and we all know there are several different versions... some with v8's, some with 6 bangers... just like some Nahalems will be 2 bangers, some 4, and apparently, some will have v6's or v8's in the future. Then the steppings would be like model years for mustangs... is he 08 'stang really better than the 07? I don't know, 'cause I'm a computer geek..

Here is my guess at the naming:

1. Pre 32-bit CPUs
2. i386
3. i486
4. Pentium(P5)
5. Pentium 4/Netburst
6. Intel P6(Pentium II, III, Core, Core2)
7. Intel i7

At least that is my guess as to why they named it as such, it is the 7th major core design they have released.(lumping pre 32-bit together as one thing and ignoring all non x86 releases, Itanium/i860/i432/etc...)

Insider info I heard for the "i7" naming. According to the marketing folks at Intel, the "i" stands for Intel. In my opinion, they could have come up with something more creative since the "i" is somewhat overused throughout the technology world. As for the number, this is a new numbering system for Nehalem-based products, where "7" is somewhere in the middle. This is something like the Mazda6, 3, 5, 2 car series. Expect lower and higher numbers to come out in the future for the Nehalem family.

Pentium (1)
Pentium II (2)
Pentium III (3)
Pentium IV (4)
Pentium D (5)
CoreDuo (6)
Nehalem (7)

Hence The 7.

And the "I"?
Well they probably wanted to keep it short for ease and if they were going ot pick one letter, the "I" is good for non-techies.

I'm not so much bothered by the 'i', I'm more annoyed that they've added an extra syllable to the name, and it's only one letter. "Core i7 Extreme" just doesn't roll off the tongue as well as
Core 2 Extreme".

I have no complaints about the name, and find it less technical sounding then
'core 2 duo' (which I found idiotic sounding).
Granted, I would have preferred a name like i4400, or xxx4,5 or so....
If i7 is referring to a 7Ghz processor, I have no complaints about the name.

On the other hand, if the newer cores are more power efficient then the core2duo, any indication in Ghz might be deceiving. (look at the atom processor running at 1,6Ghz globally being on par with a 900Mhz celeron).

I'm not interested in multicores neither, as this is mostly good for powerhungry applications.
Currently I'm running XP on a 1,2Ghz singlecore computer for basic tasks, which is enough speed and performance for maybe 75% of the rest of the world.

I hope to see this newer processor is indeed less powerhungry then a core2duo, and not 'relative less powerhungry', like Windows Vista supposed to be a better and 'faster' os, but in most cases still don't beat xp!

i7? Whatever. Core was a stupid name to begin with. i7 is just going to be more meaningless. There will be Intel Core i7 3423's. Of course each digit in 3423 means something different, and each meaning is different between mobile and desktop processors. Mobile's will come with the same numbering and naming scheme, but will still be based on on the Core 2 architecture for the time being. Pentium will still be the new name for entry-level processors (formerly Celerons), but Atom processors will now be renamed Core 2-LPA (light-power architecture). In the end, nothing will be simpler, and you'll still need a textbook to determine what your processor is capable of.

Jumas98 has it right. They announced today in an internal Intel publication.