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The biggest points to take away from the presentation are:
A couple of you have sent mails about the new "Turbo Mode as well. It is not like that old button we had. With Nehalem's Turbo Mode, if the processor is in a power saving state on 1, 2, or 3 of the cores, it can actually ramp up the speed of the core(s) that are needed for the application that is being given priority. So given a situation where running ALL cores at speed X creates an unreasonable TDP, running speed X on 1, 2, or even 3 cores may not be an issue.
On Production Times
The biggest points to take away from the presentation are:
- 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.
A couple of you have sent mails about the new "Turbo Mode as well. It is not like that old button we had. With Nehalem's Turbo Mode, if the processor is in a power saving state on 1, 2, or 3 of the cores, it can actually ramp up the speed of the core(s) that are needed for the application that is being given priority. So given a situation where running ALL cores at speed X creates an unreasonable TDP, running speed X on 1, 2, or even 3 cores may not be an issue.
On Production Times
The company's first desktop PC chips branded Intel® Core i7 processors and initial energy-efficient, high-performance server products (codenamed "Nehalem-EP") will be first to production. Intel is also planning to manufacture a second server derivative designed for the expandable sever market ("Nehalem-EX"), and desktop ("Havendale" and "Lynnfield") and mobile ("Auburndale" and "Clarksfield") client versions in the second half of 2009.