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Intel officially announces 32nm Westmere CPU architecture - to be shown at CES 2010

by Tarinder Sandhu on 17 December 2009, 19:00

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One of the worst-kept technology secrets of 2009 is now over.

At a press event in San Francisco today, Intel officially disclosed that it be showcasing 32nm Westmere chips at January's Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Westmere is the next iteration of Intel chip architecture, and it represents the 'tick' in the company's 'tick-tock' roadmap.

In particular, Westmere will be aimed at the mainstream desktop (Clarkdale core) and mobile (Arrandale core) segments.

Intel has spent much of 2009 drip-feeding the press details on the new-process Westmere, starting off with a technology overview in February, followed by a demonstration a day later, spoke of sampling in April, and provided a performance preview in September.

The main focus will be on whether Intel's integration of CPU and GPU on one package makes sense, and you'll have to wait a couple of weeks to find out.

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Posted by Code Geass - Thu 17 Dec 2009 19:45
Nice! Looking forward to this:D
Posted by Jimbo75 - Thu 17 Dec 2009 19:51
Why would anybody deliberately buy something with intel graphics?
Posted by Terbinator - Thu 17 Dec 2009 21:17
Jimbo75
Why would anybody deliberately buy something with intel graphics?

The on chip GFX are better than that offered in the GM45 platform - no doubt the biggest attraction around this is its new fabrication technology allowing relatively low energy consumption and high performance - could possibly become the best CPU on the lower side of £100.
Posted by latrosicarius - Thu 17 Dec 2009 21:56
it represents the ‘tick’ in the company's ‘tick-tock’ roadmap

I know the Intel roadmap development model refers to it like this, but I think it sounds backwards. The ‘tick’ should be the new microarchitecture design, and the ‘tock’ should be the same/similar architecture transitioned to a reduced process size.



Jimbo75
Why would anybody deliberately buy something with intel graphics?

Well (1) it's better than integrated motherboard graphics, and (2) where's AMD Fusion?
Posted by Noxvayl - Thu 17 Dec 2009 23:30
latrosicarius
I know the Intel roadmap development model refers to it like this, but I think it sounds backwards. The ‘tick’ should be the new microarchitecture design, and the ‘tock’ should be the same/similar architecture transitioned to a reduced process size.
In my opinion it is fine the way it is. I relate “Tock” to a new architecture because of the deeper more vibrant sound it commands when you say it. Makes sense that way to me anyway :D

latrosicarius
Well (1) it's better than integrated motherboard graphics, and (2) where's AMD Fusion?

Only benefit on the die GPU will bring for CPU's is in the very low end of the market for price and low power. AMD could get some sort of gaming and video processing benefit since they'll use proper GPU architecture but that is still way off and currently not promising that much tbh.

I really hope the Cell processor gets a consumer showing for gamers sooner rather than later since it is far better than any AMD or Intel CPU.

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