Today marks the end of the Intel Nehalem press embargo, the codename for Intel's latest generation of processors after the ever successful Core 2 series.  Expect to see more Intel i7 reviews in the next few hours.

The release of Intel Nehalem processors would mark a major leap in few areas. First of all, Intel would be (finally) doing away with their Front Side Bus (and replacing it with Quick Path inteface) architecture that has been a major bottleneck to the system and a part where it loses to its main rival, the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with the latter having its Hyper Transport Technology .

So, in what way would Intel i7 be a major leap in computer?

1) It would put alot more pressure on AMD to come up with a similar competing processors and the consumers would be the one to benefit.

2) Intel i7 would support DDR3 only, thus bringing down the price of DDR3 memory modules once Intel i7 price stabilizes.

3) Multicore processing - As the Nehalem are known to have 4 processors with 8 threads, it means that software developers would begin to implement multithreaded applications (they are currently implemeting, but with introduction of i7, they would speed up the implementation).

And this processor just came in time. When Windows 7 (Vienna) is officially released in a couple of years, it would begin the transitions of home computing in 64bit environment. As rumours are that Windows 7 would only be available in 64bit editions, this would also encourage software developers and manufactureres to ensure that their softwares and drivers would work in 64bit environment. Finally, we are beginning to move away from the days of 32bit computing.

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