There is no doubt that the Core micro-architecture will have a special place in Intel's history. Core reclaimed the performance crown from AMD, it put Intel on the power-efficiency track and it brought the first quad-core processors in a portfolio that has delivered more than 200 different processor models over the course of two years. While the first-generation Core architecture will see its first successors in Core i7 (Nehalem) CPUs later this year and may slowly begin phase out in the second half of next year, Intel today showed once more the potential of Core with the first 6-core processor - which is not only evidence of the scalability, but also indicates the limits of this architecture.
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