Processador Intel 32 nm (Core i3/Core i5 "Clarkdale", Core i7 980X Gulftown)

Intel's aggressive drive to 32nm has many reconsidering their purchasing plans over the next year.

All Westmere chips will feature higher performance and lower power consumption. This is made possible through the use of fourth generation strained silicon and second generation high-k/metal gate technology, referring to the use of a High-k gate dielectric and a metal gate electrode.

Intel is reporting at least a 22 percent performance increase clock for clock over their 45nm process, and there are still many steppings to go before they go to market. Westmere also has seven new instructions, designed for accelerating encryption and decryption algorithms.

The first Westmere chips will be codenamed Clarkdale, featuring two 32nm logical processors paired with a graphics core and an integrated memory controller built on a 45nm line. By using "Multi-Chip Packaging", Intel will be able to minimize their losses from defective chips on a maturing manufacturing line. Arrandale is the mobile variant, with additional power saving technology for laptops.

Gulftown is the successor to the Nehalem-based Core i7 and is due in the middle of 2010. Gulftown has six cores, but is capable of efficiently handling twelve threads at once, thanks to its next generation Hyper-Threading. It will use the X58 chipset due to the LGA-1366 socket, but there are rumors of a newer version coming in 2010 that will feature support for USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s.

DailyTech has received information that Core i5 Lynnfield and Clarksfield CPUs will be replaced by quad core Westmere variants in the middle of 2010. Intel refuses to comment on unannounced products, although they did state that "additional 32nm products will follow in 2010".

Right now, Intel is focusing on ramping up production of Clarkdale and Arrandale for the fourth quarter of this year. Fab D1D, Intel's manufacturing research factory in Hilsboro, Oregon, is already outfitted with 32nm equipment and will begin commercial production in Q4. Fab D1C and AFO (Aloha Factory Operations), in Oregon as well, will also ramp up in the fourth quarter of this year.

Intel's "Megafab", Fab 32 in Chandler, Arizona, will start 32nm production in early 2010, followed by Fab 11X in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Other fabs may follow to meet demand.

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INTEL IS STARTING to talk about the upcoming 32nm chips called Westmere. They are going to be a top-to-bottom family, everything from notebooks to 4S+ servers.

The new names you need to know are Gulftown, Clarksdale, Arrandale and Clarksfield. Gulftown is a six-core high-end desktop, the others are all two-core CPUs with integrated graphics. Gulftown and Clarksdale are desktop parts, Arrandale is mobile, and Clarksfield is a server part.

Probably the biggest thing is that Arrandale replaces the 45nm integrated parts with a 32nm core, but the GPU is still 45nm. While it still won't get out of its way, it is still the same mostly broken G45 core, you won't be able to get away from it. So far, there are no other ways to get a mobile part on 32nm.

Integrated graphics are all MCMs, with the two dies connected via QPI interconnects on package, and another QPI link off package. Since there is no way to access it or change it, this is basically a trivia game question answer.

All of the 32nm parts have seven new instructions, six of which are for crypto/AES acceleration, with the last one being a carryless multiply (PCLMULQDQ). They also sport two-channel DDR3, down from the three channel in the current 'extreme' type i7s.

Overall, it is about what you would expect. The CPUs are a little better, smaller, faster and more efficient. Pulling the graphics on die, and not giving any other option, signals the death of the chipset as, after the memory controller and graphics, there is precious little left.

Right on schedule.

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NO SOONER DO we hear about the new Arrandale hybrid 32/45nm processor than someone drags us into a back room and shows us one. Enjoy the pic, it is a running test board for Intel 32nm laptop platforms.

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destr0yer disse:

O Core i7 Gulftown será um pequeno monstrinho... 6 cores + 12 threads com novo HT.

o que a AMD poderá fazer para combater esta BESTA?

E pelos vistos nada de 6C/12T para mainstream... Vai existir assim um CLARO separamento dos 1366

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ciberg disse:

Acho mal ficarem nos 2 cores / 4 threads nos Clarkdale 32nm, julgo que dessa forma os actuais quad ainda vão ter muito para dar.

Para quem tem um quad socket 775 julgo só fazer sentido o upgrade para o Gulftown, ou então para um i7 com mais velocidade que os actuais, se bem que com o gasto a que esse upgrade obrigará, julgo que muitos irão manter os socket 775 durante muito tempo.

À partida não estou a gostar muito desta estratégia da Intel, mas eu também sou pouco entendido desta matéria.

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blastarr disse:

"quad socket LGA 775" não existe. Estarás a referir-te a "quad socket LGA 771" ?

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Zirkobvisk disse:

Pessoal o socket 775 viverá até 2011?

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Corpsegrinder disse:

mas confesso que gostava de por as mãos num i7! Se não fossem os preços...........................

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Zirkobvisk disse:

Bem a intel assim não dá hipoteses. pena serem os preços.
Pessoal o socket 775 viverá até 2011?

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JPgod disse:

bah, isso ainda não é pornográfico

pornográfico será quando isso começar a deitar números grandes

alem disso, são as versões mainstream dual-core. O flagship será o Gulftown com 6 cores/12 threads

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