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Intel's Nehalem roadmap revealed: Lynnfield and Havendale in Q3 '09

by Parm Mann on 17 July 2008, 10:25

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If your next computer upgrade revolves around the wait for Intel's next-gen Nehalem part, it looks as though Bloomfield processors will be your only choice - unless you're willing to wait until the third quarter of 2009.

The following slide, captured by Expreview, details Intel's Nehalem roadmap over the coming year. It shows that Intel's mainstream and value Nehalem parts, Lynnfield and Havendale, won't see the light of day until nearly a year after the introduction of Bloomfield.

Though the wait for more Nehalem parts is longer than we anticipated, the 2.66GHz Bloomfield expected to land before the end of this year at around $300 now looks all the more appealing.

A second slide, detailing some of Lynnfield and Havendale's key features is a little more interesting. Lynnfield, targeted at both the mainstream and performance markets, will feature four hyper-threading enabled cores and support dual-channel DDR3, not the triple-channel available with Bloomfield. There'll be 8MiB of cache and support for two 8x PCI-E graphics cards.

Havendale, aimed at the value and mainstream markets, could become Intel's first processor to feature integrated graphics. Details on the graphics architecture remains unknown, but it appears to be at the sacrifice of sheer CPU performance. Havendale processors will feature only the two hyper-threading enabled cores, and 4MiB of cache.

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Q3 09! :rant:
I like how linear and logical Intels naming system is :clapping: if only Nvidia could follow a similar trend instead fo sticking things here and there all the time.

Look forward to the lynnfield parts… that is if i can hold out without just buying bloomfield. The only gripe i have is… will triple channel memory bring us anything? Dual channel didnt really bring massive gains as far as i know so…
Biscuit
Look forward to the lynnfield parts… that is if i can hold out without just buying bloomfield. The only gripe i have is… will triple channel memory bring us anything? Dual channel didnt really bring massive gains as far as i know so…
No-one knows how Nehalem responds to bandwidth yet, so tricky to say. However there might be a number of other differences between bloomfield and the rest, like ability to adjust CPU clock and possibly hyper-threading.

Then again lynnfield parts might have a PCI-E interconnect built in, enabling very fast connection to graphics card.
Long time before most of us will be upgrading to nehalem then.
Ciber
Long time before most of us will be upgrading to nehalem then.

Knowing the Hexus lot I doubt it - there's a lot of people who look after their.. system :p