Intel's soon launch quad-core, second generation Nehalem CPU, codenamed Lynnfield will end up with either Core i7 or Core i5 brands. The brand will depend on the performance and market segment Intel wants to target. At the top of the range, Lynnfield at 2.93GHz will end up with Core i7 870 brand.

Core i7 9xx generation will remain reserved for Bloomfield socket 1366 CPUs, while Lynnfield generation will be Core i7 8x0 or lower.

Top of the line is 2.93GHz and the nice feature is that with Intel Turbo this quad-core can reach 3.6GHz with at least one of its cores. Intel explained to us in Sunnyvale that if the TDP of the CPU is at an acceptable rate, the CPU will overclock one, two, three or all cores to the maximal speed that will still be at acceptable TDP.

The good thing about Core i7 8x0 generation is that they do officially support DDR3 1333, something that Bloomfield and upcoming 6-core Gulftown don’t.

Clakdale 32nm is Core i5 or Core i3.