4/22/2021 0 Comments Intel Arrandale Generation
Want to stump your IT know-it-all with a bit of Intel trivia that few know, yet is featured prominently on most new PCs today Intels proudly touting the new Skylake processor as its 6th-gen Core chip.The first-gen chip was Core on laptops and Core 2 on desktops, which changed Intel from a second-place chump back to being Rocky Balboa again.It was the original Core i7 chip, codenamed Nehalem, because that was the first Core i7 chip.
It was actually the originally 8086, because Intel considers everything from 8086 up until Pentium 4 as first-gen. ![]() It was a dual-core processor based on the 32nm Westmere cores that had already been introduced with the six-core Core i7-980X CPU. And what makes this chip first-gen, while other Westmere-based CPUs (as well as the two previous Core i7 CPUs) dont rate a gen rating. With Clarkdale and Arrandale, Intel integrated its first graphics core ever into a CPU package. Instead, the graphics were a separate chip that sat next to the two x86 CPU cores, as you can see from the above picture. This may help reduce the confusion over Intels definition of generation these days. Whats really odd is why Intel started to use the graphics core as the primary demarcation line. I do remember Intel talking about its graphics being the second generation or third generation at some point, but somewhere along the line, it stuck. Today you cant go five feet into the computer aisle at a store without seeing that Skylake is the 6th gen CPU on a spec card, or Haswell being described as the 4th gen chip. Keep in mind that processor generations have many different meanings to many different people. Theres a first-gen Pentium and a a first-gen Pentium 4, for example, but when you hear Intel and PC OEMs saying Skylakes the 6th gen chip, its specifically referring to the CPUs with integrated graphics chips. This isnt the first time Intel has essentially rebooted things. Remember that the original 8086 eventually lead up to the 486 before Intel adopted Pentium because it couldnt trademark numbers. That took us to the Pentium MMX, Pentium II, III and Pentium 4 (and many models in between) before the naming convention was restarted once again with the Core line.
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