Core i5 will become the name of Intel's Nehalem mid-range platform that will arrive in the third quarter in the form of the Lynnfield processor and Intel P55 chipset. Now that Intel has sneaked out some official information on its new Core i5 series it is clear that the Core family, not surprisingly, will grow even bigger. Intel also presented the entry level series Core i3. It mobilizes the entire processor assortment of the new Intel Core brand and its new Lynnfield processor will not only appear in Core but also the older Core i7 series.
Intel has decided to separate its Core series on the basis of the number of active cores, but also how many threads the processors can handle.
Intel's HyperThreading technology, that allows quad-core processors to juggle 8 threads, will only be available with Core i7 models, which means that the top models of Lynnfield will launch as Core i7, but still using Intel's new LGA1156 socket. In other words, there will be Core i7 processors for both the LGA1366 and LGA1156 platforms.
The top spawn of the Lynnfield architecture will launch for LGA1156 with HyperThreading dubbed as Core i7 870. All LGA1156 Core i7 models will be called 8xx, while the LGA1366 models will remain as 9xx.
The Core i3 series loses Intel's new Turbo Mode technology compared to big brother Core i5. This series will house today's Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo processors of the LGA775 platform.
The Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad names will disappear, but Celeron, Pentium and Atom will still remain a part of Intel's assortment.
More on Intel's new processor families at the official website.
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