Intel Introduced i7

Intel's latest, it's eight core chips based on the new Nehalem architecture have been named and are almost ready to launch.
With the power of 8 logical cores (four physical, doubled by Hyper-threading) built on a 45 nm process to leverage, it's shaping up to be a strong offering. It features Quick path, an answer to AMD's Hyper transport, on chip memory controller, SSE4 instruction support, and 8 MB cache pool.
The processor will be branded Intel Core with i7 identifier for the first round chips. This brand will include an extreme edition at launch according to Intel.