Intel Core i3, i5 Arrandale and Clarkdale in Photos

It's no big secret that Intel is cooking up 32nm chips for new computers next year, but now the chip giant has announced formally that it'll be unveiling its new offering on January 7, 2010 at CES.

This means that at CES we'll be seeing a slew of new laptops and desktops using the latest Nehalem architecture with its integrated, on-chip graphics processor. While only time will tell how OEMs decide to package their systems with a discrete GPU, today we can marvel at what the chip looks like both on wafer and in package.

Clarkdale desktop CPU:

Arrandale mobile CPU:

Westmere die shot:

Westmere wafer:

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Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
  • broketechjunkie
    sexy!
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  • haunted one
    Nice. Now, when will I have one of these in ma case?
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  • HansVonOhain
    Shiny! I thought that Larrabee project was dropped?
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  • apache_lives
    Im hearing good things about performance of these babys - around double the performance of previous generations etc

    And no Intel IGP's have nothing to do with Larrabee
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  • HansVonOhain
    apache, so what chip do they use?
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  • apache_lives
    apparently some advanced version of the current X4500 featured in the G45 chipsets today
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  • tserich
    They look awesome
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  • ben850
    i'm kind of outta the "news" as far as this CPU goes, but what can it's on-board GPU be comparable to? for example: nvidia 9800GT? 8800? or is it not even meant to be that beefy of a GPU?
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  • TidalWaveOne
    HansVonOhainShiny! I thought that Larrabee project was dropped?
    It was... it's not Larrabee.
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  • daft
    any chance for higher res shots?
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