Considering all salient features of the new Intel Core i7 (Bloomfield) processors; let us walk through all the noteworthy stuff in i7 920 processors-

• 4-processing cores
• 256 KB L2 cache per core
• 4 cores sharing a mammoth 8 MB L3 cache
• Addition of 7 new SSE4 instructions
• Integrated triple channel DDR3 memory controller with 6 memory sockets,
• 32GBPS bandwidth and 1333 MHz clock speeds
• Support to simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) facilitating simultaneous processing of as many as 8 different threads
• Every core provided with 32 KB instruction + data L1 cache
• Monolithic processor design
• Manufactured using Intel’s 45 nm high-k fabrication technology

These are the older specs, but quite obviously higher clock frequencies will be on-the-cards for sure. Indeed, this is mere beginning; you can definitely expect to see 2core, 6core as well as 8 core versions of the i7 processors pretty soon.

Summary

Clock frequency - 2.67GHz
Core - Core i7 920
Memory controller - DDR3-1066
Quick path speed -4800 MT/s
Price - $284