2008年11月18日,Intel正式发布了采用Nehalem架构处理器酷睿i7家族。i7家族虽然性能强大,但是毕竟仅仅是面向极限性能用户的产品,其过高的价格让广大的普通消费者望而却步,造成酷睿i7发布近一年的时间里,市场占有率不足Intel整体市场1%的局面。在时隔10个月之后,面向大众消费者的LGA1156平台推出,其不仅保留了LGA1366平台的极致性能,还将整体成本以及功耗降至了较低的水平上,这就是目前市场上大热的酷睿i5系列处理器。 November 18, 2008, Intel officially announced the use of Nehalem processor architecture Core i7 family. Although the i7 family of powerful, but after all, is only for extreme performance users of the product, its high price for the general consumer discouraged, resulting in Core i7 release nearly a year’s time, the market share of less than 1% of the overall Intel market, The situation. After a lapse of 10 months, the LGA1156 platform for the mass consumer market not only retains the ultimate performance of the LGA1366 platform, but also reduces the overall cost and power consumption to a low level, which is the current hot market Core i5 series processors.