Intel Nehalem IDF presentation slides

Posted on Thursday, August 21 2008 @ 0:35 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

HardOCP published all the slides from Intel's Nehalem presentation at the Intel Developer Forum. Part I can be found here and Part II over here.

These were the biggest points:

Nehalem is an entire family of products that span from Server to Mobile.
Fast by design with quicker connects between cores and greatly improved memory bandwidth.
Hyperthreading greatly improves efficiency.
Power Management has been GREATLY redefined from previous chips both through new techniques as well as physical transistors being changed.

Here's a look about what Intel has to say about Hyper-Treading on the Nehalem:

And the new cache system:

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