Senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group Pat Gelsinger said, ""Our engineers have put together an incredible processing family here that will include a tremendous amount of new processor features all centered on delivering faster computer performance and terrific energy efficiency."

Product annoucements include:

• Intel Core i7 processors and initial energy-efficient, high-performance server products (codenamed "Nehalem-EP")
• A second server derivative designed for the expandable sever market ("Nehalem-EX")
• Desktop ("Havendale" and "Lynnfield")
• Mobile ("Auburndale" and "Clarksfield") client versions

Nehalem architecture features include:

• 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—threads with Hyper-Threading, turbo mode, 8MB of Intel Smart Cache, QuickPath, integrated 3 channel DDR 3 memory controller, PCI Express 2.0

Intel expects to ship these products during the second half of 2009.

The new core microarchitecture will deliver upto 8-threaded performance on 4 cores and best bandwidth implementing using QuickPath Interconnect. Quickpath is a technology that delivers three times the memory bandwith of previous generation Core microarchitecture solutions by connection processors, chipsets and memory together.

Mobile Computing Strategy

David (Dadi) Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's Mobility Group said, "Calpella will redefine how we compute on-the-go by giving users a stunning new computing visual experience, better manageability and security, enhanced turbo mode features and evolutionary power management for notebooks," said Perlmutter. "It is all about dramatic mobile performance without compromise."

Intel introduced the first-ever mobile-focused quad-core laptop workstation based on the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor, which includes four cores and only uses 45 watts of power.

The latest product announcement from Intel shows a focus on improving power efficiency while allowing for improved computing performance in hardware using Intel chips.

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