Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered

Whitefield, The First "Real" Quad-Core

The next chip on Intel's 65 nm menu is Whitefield, a server product with 8 or 16 MB of L2 cache and four Merom architecture type cores on a single piece of silicon. Whitefield has already been around on several Intel roadmaps.

65 Nm Processor Overview

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Category Code Name Cores Cache Market
Desktop Kentsfield Dual coremulti-die 4 MB Mid 2007
Desktop Conroe Dual coresingle die 4 MB shared End 2006
Desktop Allendale Dual coresingle die 2 MB shared End 2006
Desktop Cedar Mill (NetBurst/P4) Single core 512 kB, 1 MB, 2 MB Early 2006
Desktop Presler (NetBurst/P4) Dual core, dual die 4 MB Early 2006
Desktop/Mobile Millville Single core 1 MB Early 2007
Mobile Yonah2 Dual core, single die 2 MB Early 2006
Mobile Yonah1 Single core 1/2 MB Mid 2006
Mobile Stealey Single core 512 kB Mid 2007
Mobile Merom Dual core, single die 2/4 MB shared End 2006
Enterprise Sossaman Dual core, single die 2 MB Early 2006
Enterprise Woodcrest Dual core, single die 4 MB Mid 2006
Enterprise Clovertown Quad core, multi-die 4 MB Mid 2007
Enterprise Dempsey (NetBurst/Xeon) Dual core, dual die 4 MB Mid 2006
Enterprise Tulsa Dual coresingle die 4/8/16 MB End 2006
Enterprise Whitefield Quad coresingle die 8 MB, 16 MB shared Early 2008

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  • ojas
    lol looking at this article in 2011, i realize that what was intended to be yorkfield became bloomsfield and vice-versa. funny how much things change. so much for the top-secret :P
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