Pat Gelsinger, GM of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, shows off a Core i7 silicon wafer at Monday's launch event in San Francisco. Kick-starting the Nehalem conversation is, naturally, the Core i7-965 Extreme Edition -- a 3.2-GHz quad-core processing monster with 8 MB of L3 cache that is priced at just $999, or about $500 less than Intel's top Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition desktop chip built on the older micro-architecture. The first Nehalem lineup also includes the Core i7-940 (2.93-GHz, 8-MB L3 Cache, $562) and the Core i7-920 (2.66-GHz, 8-MB L3 Cache, $284).
