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Boy are these chips powerful or what!15 Years ago we might not have thought or even considered chips to be this fast as they are today.

The Nehalem cores are said to be breaking barriers and performance thresholds destroying CPU benchmarks.

An early look at the company’s new chips shows they have the potential to drive current data center-class performance onto the desktop.

First off, the Nehalems will be fabricated in 45-nm technology. This isn’t anything singular to this chip family; Intel has had 45-nm processors for about a year, and AMD will soon release its first such chips. But 45-nm is significant because its finer design rules enable lower-power operation and allow more gates to be packed onto a similarly sized silicon die.

The market official price is now said to be around $999 today but being sold at $1200.

The Core i7-965 is a quad-core part clocked at 3.2 GHz. The other two devices, also quad cores, are the 2.93-GHz Core i7-940 and the 2.66-GHz Core i7-920. The 940 is selling at a street price of around $660 and the 920 can be had for an affordable $360.

What do you think, will AMD be able to now catch up with Intel or further go into plummeting sales?

[via CNN]