Intel officially announces 32nm Westmere CPU architecture - to be shown at CES 2010
by Tarinder Sandhu
on 17 December 2009, 19:00
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At a press event in San Francisco today, Intel officially disclosed that it be showcasing 32nm Westmere chips at January's Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Westmere is the next iteration of Intel chip architecture, and it represents the 'tick' in the company's 'tick-tock' roadmap.
In particular, Westmere will be aimed at the mainstream desktop (Clarkdale core) and mobile (Arrandale core) segments.
Intel has spent much of 2009 drip-feeding the press details on the new-process Westmere, starting off with a technology overview in February, followed by a demonstration a day later, spoke of sampling in April, and provided a performance preview in September.
The main focus will be on whether Intel's integration of CPU and GPU on one package makes sense, and you'll have to wait a couple of weeks to find out.