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Intel Shows Off 32-nm Westmere CPU Wafer

by - source: Tom's Hardware US

See Intel's wafer of little chips.

While we're still somewhat caught up in the P55 and Core i7 and i5 Lynnfield newness, the real treat that Intel has around the corner is in its upcoming 32-nm Westmere chips along with Clarkdale and Arrandale.

32-nm is an exciting milestone for the processor industry, and Intel was proud to boast that it was first to produce a full processor using the manufacturing process. Check out the video below for the news chock full of technical details.

Making First 32nm Microprocessor

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alikum 09/15/2009 6:59 PM
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To be honest, since the last time GMA failed on me, I have grown skeptical towards Intel's graphics solution. Let's wait and see what the chips are capable of before talking, Intel.

Major7up 09/15/2009 7:07 PM
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It could be nice as a backup solution to have it integrated like that. Additionally you could have some damn small devices with the elimination of another graphics/video chip or card.

Anonymous 09/15/2009 7:14 PM
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So should I not even bother buying a new computer until these 32nm chips come out?

zerapio 09/15/2009 7:19 PM
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I've used the GMA on the 965 on my work system and NEVER had a blue screen related to the gfx driver. That says a lot! Sure, I don't push it with 3D apps because that's not what it was meant for but I do throw a lot of videos at it.

Rancifer7 09/15/2009 7:22 PM
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bk420 09/15/2009 7:30 PM
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That's awesome! I hope it lights a fire under AMD!!! I'm glad to see the technology is moving faster than anticipated. 28nm isn't that far down the road, SWEET!

Zingam 09/15/2009 7:34 PM
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chaohsiangchen 09/15/2009 7:38 PM
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Rancifer7 :
If they are the first 32nm producers, why does he mention they have better Gate pitch than their competitors that produce at 28nm?



TSMC and IBM/Chartered/Motorola/... are gearing up to 28nm process, which will eventually produce chipsets with IGP for AMD, NVIDIA, VIA and other chipset makers.

techguy911 09/15/2009 7:41 PM
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Could be good IF it has multigpu support on the motherboard use any video card but use on board gpu to offload games to on windows 7.

techguy911 09/15/2009 7:41 PM
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stardude82 09/15/2009 7:49 PM
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Yeah... I'm waiting for the 32nm chips to come out, I almost bit on the i5 (somehow I thought it was 32nm). Nehalem is great and all.. but there aren't any killer apps right now. I'm not so hot about the current crop of games (mostly all ports) and Windows 7 should have lower system requirements than Vista.

Right now, GPU's need to shrink. Most of them are way too hot for my liking.

Where's the news about Clarksfield? Intel's mobile offerings are very stale and I need a new laptop soon.

fonzy 09/15/2009 7:53 PM
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Miles Dyson (black guy from Terminator 2) should be Demonstrating this chip.

RaZZ3R 09/15/2009 7:54 PM
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He doesn't look very shore what to say, its more like a reversal than a comercial video. Anyhow a like technology evolving at a constant pace but really 2 years betwen 45 nm and 32 nm is really to shorte for costumers, keeping the shoping so often for new CPU's. The best way is to whait for the 2nd generation of curent technologie to buy, for example the new Intel Core i7 and i5, AMD's Phenom II as well. And that applyes to GPU's ass well like: the new (old now) GTX 275. The 2nd generations are mostly cheaper and better optimized ... faster. I would prefer smaller but stronger thechnologie leaps, something like 4 years for Direct X and for the CPU manufacturing proces.

JasonAkkerman 09/15/2009 7:57 PM
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Excellent, bring on the Core i9s!!!

moricon 09/15/2009 8:07 PM
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Yes this is good, I will be jumping current i9/7/5 and going 32nm new build path. Missed 65nm so makes sense, besides the 45nm setup I hae will go great till then :)

DjEaZy 09/15/2009 8:20 PM
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... so what... where is a GPU from intel, that performs reasonable?

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 404-7.html


anamaniac 09/15/2009 8:29 PM
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A Intel integrated graphics will work just fine for your average Je's everyday use.

Anonymous 09/15/2009 8:36 PM
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socrates047 09/15/2009 8:37 PM
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shamgar 09/15/2009 8:52 PM
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itadakimasu 09/15/2009 9:54 PM
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nforce4max 09/15/2009 10:13 PM
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Interesting I wonder if this wafer ware all or most of the die(s) failed probe testing or just one amongst hundreds already produced.

nforce4max 09/15/2009 10:19 PM
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omg_yawn____ :
Intel seems to be gearing their production towards crap instead of good products. Core i5 is/was the yawn of the century, and this doesn't look any better, unless you get your rocks off by moving a crappy IGP to the CPUs packaging for the sake of being 1st to do it. I'll save my excitement for the Radeon 5000 series, thanks.



You got that right but as for the yawn we got about 90 years and three months and a few weeks left. Yes like every one else I can't wait till the 5xxx cards hit the shelves. A little 9800gt 1gb or my 8800gtx can't pull all the weight that my e6400 at 3.4GHZ wont pull on it's own. The one big disappointment for me with the I5 cpus is that prices for the C2Q stayed as they have been for some months now. I wanted a sub $100 quad with a 8x mult.

alvine 09/15/2009 10:25 PM
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"many competitors" you mean amd

apache_lives 09/15/2009 11:17 PM
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chaohsiangchen :
TSMC and IBM/Chartered/Motorola/... are gearing up to 28nm process, which will eventually produce chipsets with IGP for AMD, NVIDIA, VIA and other chipset makers.



becuase intels 32nm would be better then there 28nm

nforce4max 09/16/2009 12:48 PM
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alvine :
"many competitors" you mean amd



Well there is IBM, VIA, Sony, MIPS, Motorola, and dozens more. It does not mean if they don't have a x86 that they cant make CPUs.

Burodsx 09/16/2009 1:00 AM
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A 13nm difference is quite substantial. I'll pass on the first round of 6 core processors, but I'm definitely looking forward to getting my hands on a 32nm quad-core.

nforce4max 09/16/2009 1:38 AM
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Burodsx :
A 13nm difference is quite substantial. I'll pass on the first round of 6 core processors, but I'm definitely looking forward to getting my hands on a 32nm quad-core.



Yep and maybe just maybe a larger L2 per core and be able to use ram with voltage higher than 1.65v.

JonathanDeane 09/16/2009 3:54 AM
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Looks good to me, I have to wonder if a dual slot motherboard would have some sort of SLI built in? or if they put two of these things on one die would it be quad SLI? Also if the CPU runs at 3Ghz will the GPU on the die run at 3Ghz as well? Anyway its nice to see some advancement in the CPU area things where getting almost stale and I hope this spices things up a bit.

Anonymous 09/16/2009 3:55 AM
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So, since this does not have an IMC or integrated PCI-e controller like Core i5/i7, is it safe to say that this is essentially a 32nm Penryn CPU with a G45 northbridge packaged together? Whatever floats your boat, but a dual-core CPU and an Intel IGP aren't exactly what I'd call an exciting computer in the year 2009.

JonathanDeane 09/16/2009 3:57 AM
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I just read the little notes under the picture.. why did they back off from triple channel ram and then integrate the GPU ? I would think that at that point having the extra bandwidth would be nice ? Maybe there will be a enthusiast version....


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