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Nehalem Microarchitecture spanning a range of products – The Intel® Core™ i7 processor and a variant designed for the efficient performance server segments codenamed “Nehalem-EP” will be the first segments of the Nehalem microarchitecture in the market. A derivative designed for the expandable sever market (“Nehalem-EX”) as well as the desktop and mobile versions (“Havendale,” “Lynnfield,” “Auburndale” and “Clarksfield”) will be in production in the second half of 2009.

Turbo Mode – In response to workload demand, adds higher speed to active cores.

Power Gates – Enabled by Intel in-house design and process technology. Turns individual cores on/off. Transparent to OS. Ultra low leakage. Cores can run at independent voltage/frequency.

Intel Hyper-Threading Technology – New and improved with more processor resources.

Over 3X increase in memory bandwidth

Almost 2X increase in 3-D animation performance

Intel Core i7 and X58 Chipset – Production Q4, 4 cores – 8 threads with Hyper-Threading, turbo mode, 8MB of Intel Smart Cache, QuickPath, integrated 3 channel DDR 3 memory controller, PCI Express 2.0

Calpella and Piketon 2009 Platforms – Two chip solution. CPU has integrated memory controller and optional graphics version. IBEX Peak, centralized platform capabilities