This week has seen Intel finally bring the fruits of their Nehalem architecture to rest of their product line-up, effectively waving goodbye to the Core 2 era with the introduction of a new range of 32 nanometre Core i3 CPUs to the mainstream market. Aside from CPU core count (all current Core i3 parts are dual-core offerings), the biggest change from previous Core i5 and Core i7 parts is the introduction of an Intel GPU integrated into the CPU package itself (and with the two devices directly connected via a QPI link), further progressing Intel's determination to pack as much technology as possible onto the CPU package itself after seeing both memory controller and PCI Express controller move in this direction previously.
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