A family of dual core and quad core CPUs from Intel based on the Nehalem microarchitecture, first introduced with the Core i7 series in 2008. Also called "Core i7 Lite," Core i5 CPUs are consumer versions of Nehalem expected in 2009. See Core i7.
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
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