Sep. 22, 2009
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Intel said it will introduce its first mobile CPU designed specifically for laptops early tomorrow morning. Dubbed
Nehalem, the new processor represents Intel's new CPU microarchitecture and is used currently in its high-performance
Core i7 series of server processors and more inexpensive Core i5 series.
Intel is greatly expected to move most laptop, desktop and server processors to the Nehalem architecture early
next year, though the chip giant could not provide any approximate date.
Also, "Clarksfield" is a higher-end processor expected to be also introduced tomorrow morning at the Intel
Developer Forum.
Clarksfield is a quad-core processor for higher-end laptop and server designs. Laptop models from major PC makers
are also expected.
Overall, the Nehalem bus architecture will manifest itself later in laptops as "Arrandale," a dual-core CPU
that integrates graphics into the processor, a first for Intel.
Intel demonstrated Arrandale today in a laptop during CEO Paul Otellini's keynote address at the Intel Developer
Forum.
On Sep. 8, in a phone interview, Intel vice president Steve Smith described the new technology as moving its
high-performance desktop Nehalem technology into laptops.
"We just announced Lynnfield (the Core i5 and i7 chips for desktops). Clarksfield is the equivalent product
for notebooks," Smith said at that time.
"Quad-core, 45-nanometer. Based on Nehalem technology but optimized with power management and integration of the
PCI express I/O. Moving from a three-chip solution in the original Nehalem products to two chips--and that is our
path going forward," added Otellini.
I/O is silicon that enables a processor to talk, and shuttle data, to other parts of the system and peripheral
components.
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