Intel Core i7 Energizes Mobile Gamers

For serious gamers, notebook computers have traditionally existed in the shadow of desktop machines. Heat issues, power issues, and sometimes even form factor issues created obstacles that drove a wedge between the capabilities of the desktop machines and the on-the-go machines. With the release of the Intel® Core™ i7 processor for mobile users, Intel energizes and enables power-craving gamers-on-the-go with a whole new level of performance.

Not long after its introduction, the Intel® Core™ i7 processor shattered benchmarks and quickly earned a reputation as the “best processor on the planet.” (see www.intel.com/performance for additional information). Now, the Intel Core i7 processor takes that reputation on the road—packing all the features and the goodness of new-generation Nehalem architecture into an efficiently powered, cool-running compact form factor that provides mobile gamers with a level of performance they’ve never seen before on notebooks. At the high-end, the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition puts gamers in control of a supercharged mobile experience that powers through the most demanding games with speed and polish. For those who take their games on-the-go, games that used to be constrained to the desktop now perform fluidly on a notebook computer.

The Intel Core i7 processor features that have won widespread industry praise have now come to mobile gamers, including:

• Intelligent performance with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology: provides processing power on demand, boosting the clock speed when temperature and power levels permit.
• Enhanced multi-threading with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology: with two threads per core (for handling up to eight threads in its quad-core form), this processor excels at delivering on the promise of parallelism for compute intensive games.
• Proven architecture established by Nehalem advances: all of the key advances that characterize the new-generation Intel® architecture code-named Nehalem are featured with the Intel Core i7 processor for mobile gamers, including an integrated memory controller, up to 8 MB shared cache, a 45nm manufacturing process, unlocked processor and memory in the Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition, support for Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2 Instruction Set architecture, and more.
• With the Intel Core i7 processor for mobile users, gaming-on-the-go gets a power boost and a gaming platform that will be the envy of all their friends. No longer do power-craving gamers need to choose between being mobile and a high-end gaming experience.

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