Intel Pakistan Corporation on Tuesday introduced its most advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel(r) CoreTM i7 processor at a ceremony here at a local hotel.
The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximise data throughput, said Ashar H. Zaidi, Country Manager, Intel Corporation Pakistan.
He said the new processor speeds video editing, immersive games and other popular Internet and computer activities by up to 40 percent without increasing power consumption.
Broadly heralded by the computing industry as a technical marvel, the Intel(r) CoreTM i7 processor holds a new world record of 117 for the SPECint-base-rate2006* benchmark test that measures the performance of a processor, he added.
This, Zaidi said, is the first time ever for any single processor to exceed a score of 100 points. "Intel has delivered the fastest desktop processor on Earth to the most demanding users, the ones who are using their PCs for video, gaming and music," Zaidi said.
"When you couple what is Intel's biggest leap in chip design with other incredible innovations like Intel's solid state drives, the Core i7 processor has redefined the computer of tomorrow," he said.
The new equipment, he said, more than doubles the memory bandwidth of previous Intel "Extreme" platforms, speeding the transfer of computer bits and bites in and out of the processor with Intel(r) Quickpath Technology.
Designed with Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology, the processor also allows multiple computing threads to run simultaneously, effectively enabling it to do two things at once, Zaidi said. As a result, the Core i7 quad-core processor delivers 8-threaded performance.