

Intel's D1X Development Fab (Concept Art)
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What's the rush?
By YashBudini on 10/19/2010 6:54:30 PM , Rating: 0
Many months after Intel released a 32nm hex core there's still no sign of 32nm quad cores.

This is so much like the days of the 386.


RE: What's the rush?
By CharonPDX on 10/19/2010 8:28:38 PM , Rating: 2

Xeon E5620, E5630, E5640, X5667, X5677, L5609, L5618, L5630?

They may not have it for mobile or "desktop", but there are plenty of signs of it.

RE: What's the rush?
By Jansen (blog) on 10/19/2010 10:48:26 PM , Rating: 2
Lynnfield Core i5-7xx is 32nm quad-core!

RE: What's the rush?
By hyvonen on 10/20/2010 1:34:53 AM , Rating: 3
RE: What's the rush?
By US56 on 10/20/2010 1:53:03 AM , Rating: 3
Lynnfield is 45nm. Clarkdale and Gulftown are 32nm. They didn't shrink Lynnfield since it would hang around and compete with Sandy Bridge. Typical Intel. They rarely develop a given generation to its best unlike AMD. For example, Pentium Tillamook 266 and 300 mHz were not produced for desktops since both were better than a Pentium II at the same speed. Pentium III was prematurely shelved since a Pentium III clocked to 2+gHz outperformed a 3gHz Pentium 4. When the "Hillsboro Architecture" hit a wall they had to re-engineer the Pentium III to have a competitor for the later AMD K8. Subsequent Intel cores are direct descendants of the reworked Pentium III. Gulftown is an exception but it's effectively a server or workstation CPU and too expensive to be a threat to Sandy Bridge.

RE: What's the rush?
By Jansen (blog) on 10/20/2010 2:04:47 AM , Rating: 2
Whoops, I was thinking of the 32nm quad-core refresh that got canned when they opted for on-die graphics instead. Yes, Sandy Bridge will be the first 32nm consumer quad core from Intel.

RE: What's the rush?
By bruce24 on 10/20/2010 11:28:03 AM , Rating: 2
If anyone is interested, this link goes to Intel's price list and provides the manufacturing process for most of the processors they sell.

RE: What's the rush?
Because they are smarter than you.


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