Core i7 for Laptop from Intel

Intel officially introduced the Core i7 for portable computer.  The processor with code name Clarksfield is known as the fastest for mobile platform.  Intel introduced a newest member family of Corei7 in Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2009 which was held in San Francisco, September 22-24th 2009.  There were 3 variant of Corei7 which is introduced by Intel, namely: Corei7 920XM, Corei7 820QM and Corei7 720QM.

Shmuel ‘Mooly’ Eden, the Vice President and General Manager Mobile Platforms Group, Intel Corporation, said that Core i7 in laptop is available for those who want the high performance of computer to carry.

The recommended feature from Core i7 for laptop is Turbo Boost and Hyper Threading.  Turbo Boost allows the processor speed increase dramatically if there is a core that is not in used.  Then, Intel showed the speed of Core i7 920XM2.0 GHz that can increase up until 3.0 GHz.  The increased speed occurred in some process, such as photos batch editing or another application that run only one core.

Core i7 for mobile device is a part from Nehalem microarchitecture which had already touched the desktop and server group.  In that IDF, Intel also demonstrated the next generation of Core i7 Mobile.  In the future, the Microprocessor codenamed Arrandale, will be adopted Westmere microarchitecture and 32nm production process.

source : Kompas, Sept 2009