New Features in Intel® Core™ i7 Processors

The Intel® Core™ i7 processor family represents the next step in processor energy efficiency, performance, and dynamic scalability. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of hafnium-based Intel® 45nm hi-k metal gate silicon technology, Intel® Core™ i7 processors will also be the first to introduce Intel® QuickPath technology. Intel QuickPath technology is a point-to-point connection—there is no single bus that all the processors must use and contend with to reach memory and I/O. This improves scalability and eliminates the competition between processors for bus bandwidth. In addition, Intel® Core™ i7 processors feature Intel® Hyper-Threading technology, an integrated memory controller and Intel® Turbo Boost technology.