På Anandtech har de, med vanlig grundighed, sat sig for at samle, hvad der er af tilgængelig viden om Intel's nye Core i7 processor arkitiktur (aka Nehalem) - og hvad vi kan forvente os af den.
Det er der kommet en 15 siders artikel ud, hvor der både kigges tilbage (P4, Merom, Penryn) og fremad (Westmere, Sandy Bridge), når Core i7 arkitekturen skal beskrives og forklares.
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"It's a new architecture, at least newer than Penryn, but still built on the same 45nm process that debuted with Penryn. Next year we'll have the 32nm version of Nehalem called Westmere and then Sandy Bridge, a brand new architecture also built on 32nm. But today is all about Nehalem.
Recently Intel announced Nehalem's branding: the Intel Core i7 microprocessor. I've asked Intel why it's called this and so far the best response I can get is that the naming will make sense once the rest of the lineup is announced. Intel wouldn't even let me know what the model numbers are going to look like, so for now all we've got is that it's called the Core i7. I'll use that and Nehalem interchangeably throughout the course of this article.
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The Nehalem architecture is designed to be scalable and modular, you will see dual-core, quad-core and eight-core versions in 2009 [...]
Some versions of Nehalem will also include a graphics core, it will be located in the "un-core" of Nehalem as you'll soon see. The graphics won't be Larrabee based, it will simply be a derivative of the current G45 architecture."