“Intel spent a lot of time talking about Nehalem a year ago, but not much time on Westmere. It’s the tick to Nehalem’s tock, or in other words, it’s 32nm Nehalem.Unlike previous die shrinks, we don’t get larger caches with Westmere – Nehalem was already too big to begin with. Westmere keeps the same architecture, same cache sizes (or ratios) as Nehalem. It’s all built using smaller 32nm transistors and on a smaller die. For the same core count, expect Westmere to be roughly half the size.”
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- Intel Previews Clarkdale Processor Performance Numbers @ Legit Reviews
- Intel 32nm Clarkdale and Arrandale Processor Preview @ HotHardware
- All Phenom Models @ Hardware Secrets
- Another Look At Intel’s Lynnfield Linux Performance @ Phoronix
- Intel Core 2 Duo Processors Revisited @ iXBT
- Intel 32nm Clarkdale CPU-and-GPU chip benchmarked @ HEXUS
- The Lynnfield Followup: Turbo Mode and Overclocking Investigated @ AnandTech
- The Intel Core i7 860 Review @ AnandTech
- The Workstation & Server CPU Comparison Guide Rev. 3.0 @ TechARP
Spend some time on the Mere
The cool unreleased but hopefully some day available tech that you see at the IDF certainly captures the attention, but the one constant that everyone pays attention to are the roadmap updates that chart the coming year. This IDF it was Westmere that is just on the horizon, the die shrink to Nehalem. Arrandale and Clarkdale
will be the first to arrive, some time before we roll over to 2010. AnandTech has taken a close look at what we know for sure about Intel’s next tock.
