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

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

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

DIDI GARABEDIAN — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:50:11 GMT

I AM THINKING OF GETTING RID OF MY AMD PHENOM 9600 FOR THE NEW INTEL CORE I9 LGA 1366 SOCKET B MOTHERBOARD FROM EVGA AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS IT GOING TO BE BETTER THAN THE INTEL COR I7 975 EXTREME EDITION OR SHOULD WE WAIT FOR NEWER VERSIONS OF INTEL CORE I7 LIKE LYNNFIELD EXTREM SERIES THANKS A LOT....

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

squarebab — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:10:41 GMT

Nice try Dan, but your branding examples come up short. Boeing and BMW do not use any component terms before their numeration. Boeing doesn't call their plane the Boeing Chair 747, nor does BMW call their car the BMW Engine 7 Series. Intel's branding is misleading and confusing to some people because their initial Core brand offerings clearly denotes the number of CPUs in their name (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo, and Core 2 Quad) and this has led to the assumption that Intel's Core i7 would represent the same. I agree with Tanka's inference that Intel could have done a better job with branding their product.

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

tanka12345 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:06:02 GMT

Hey Dan,

Guess what I saw? :P

I recently read that Gulftown is now going to be called "Core i9". More CoreX branding I see. I still don't understand why you can't call Gulftown Core i7, but Core i9 does sound flashier which = More sales which is better for Intel. Maybe we could come up with a Formula of CoreX to Y number of cores and predict the future number of cores in Intel CPUs! I'll even start the table off for you :P

Core "iX" Name No. of Cores

X Y

1 (Unknown, presumably 1)

2 (TBA)

3 2

4 (TBA)

5 4

6 (TBA)

7 4

8 (TBA)

9 6

I'll leave you to fill in the rest :P

Tank

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

oem.access — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:15:16 GMT

@Tanka – Ahhhh, now I see what you were meaning on the discontinuance stuff. We have actually stated that the 920 will go through our normal “End of Life” (EOL) process (as do all CPUs eventually), but that doesn’t mean we are discontinuing all i7. Also, keep in mind that our EOL process is a very thought-out and long term process—it isn’t like every part in the world disappears the next day. We actually keep some around a long time for customers that have set-in-stone system specs for major contracts, for testing and backwards compatibility studies, etc.

The stars rating system is being used in retail at the point of purchase to help consumers compare CPUs between systems.

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

Marco C — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:32:42 GMT

That's the plan, Tanka! We're going to try to get all of the major players to participate.

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

tanka12345 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:36:19 GMT

Thanks for the answers Dan, I'm sure I'll come up with more questions if you're still around here!

The i7 is a FAST screamer! It's amazing how speedy it is compared to Pentium 4. I really hope I'll have enough money to upgrade to Gulftown depending on the performance improvement. What do you think the price range of the Gulftown CPU's would be?

I heard that the Core i7 920 was being discontinued (mainly because the highest Core i5 Model was in a similar performance range as the 920, but at a higher price). Is the new "stars" system like a star rating on the retail box? (I've never heard of it)

Thanks HH and Intel and Dan for the first serving of OEM.Access! I really hope we can have Intel and many more companies here :)

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

peter0328 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:21:18 GMT

@oem.access

Thanks for your answers! I definitely think this new part of HH is a great addition. It definitely is great for us consumers who like to know lots of info about what they own! lol.

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

oem.access — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:54:45 GMT

Response From Intel's Dan Snyder...

@tanka12345, good for you taking the plunge on i7, it’s a screamer! I don’t look at asking questions as “bashing” at all. Now if you didn’t ask questions and made bashing statements alone with no backup, that’s another story, haha! Peter is right, we haven’t discontinued i7 at all. In fact, we have publicly stated that out 2010 high end 6-core Gulftown processor will run on exactly that—X58 chipset Socket 1366. So i7 and X58 is around for a while. Where were you hearing we had discontinued i7?

With regard to your graphics question—keep in mind that we will have many flavors of CPUs—with and without graphics – so there will be tons of options for consumers to go either way. And as has always been the case, people with integrated graphics who want higher end graphics solutions can add in a gfx card if they have an available slot. A small yet important nuance—we have publicly stated that our first processors with graphics will be in one package but will be separate die inside that package. This helps decouple some of the dependencies that gfx integrated into the CPU die would have. So, in theory, we could have different gfx capabilities on that separate die and different CPU configs on the CPU die—all in one package.

As for your branding question, we have brand marketeers far more versed in this than I am but I’ll take a stab. I know for sure they are making big steps to simplify things and from internal presentations I have seen the brand and logo soup will get lots better. Education will be needed for sure—but I think any company with multiple branded products faces the same challenge. Does a 7 series BMW have seven engines? A Boeing 747 have 747 seats? Our brand team has done years of research and study, undoubtedly talking to people like your friend, and they really feel like the new brand structure will help in the end. Also remember we have our new “stars” rating system so consumers like your friend can compare CPU capabilities in retail.

@Peter0328, glad you are enjoying the 940. You guys are both ahead of me and my home system now, no fair! Yep, pricing can seem to be a mystery to many of us here too, haha, but after 15 years here I think it kinda goes like this. Basically pricing is this complex calculus of product features, positioning, availability and marketing objectives. We could sell tons more Extreme Editions at a lower price of course, but it is our prestige brand with all the bells and whistles and fully unlocked, so it is a marketing and branding decision to have it where it is. One thing I know for sure, we offer more performance at the same price year after year, that’s what’s so great about the tech industry. Like I say above, sure woulda been nice to have a Moore’s Law of price performance for my last flight to Europe!