Another quad-core processor family from Intel

Number 7 was missing from the palette - so far.

With the release of the Phenom IIs, AMD is once again facing real competition for Intel in the CPU market, which is why the largest processor maker is committed to two responses. One is the price reduction, of which already we could read preview on our columns; the other is the launch of a new family of processors.

This is the Q7000 series, the main features of which are: 45 nm manufacturing technology, 800 MHz PSB and only 2 MB of second-level cache - this is half of the Q8000 family - which is also 512 kB per core. ot means. The first representative will be the Q7500 CPU, which operates at 2,6 GHz with a 65-watt TDP. Its expected price will be around $ 150, which sounds very tempting. However, the size of the cache seems to be quite thin, and we’ll be curious about the newcomer’s performance during multimedia tasks - which is why we’re mostly buying a quad-core processor.

No official information has been released yet about the exact release date.