Next-generation Intel Core Micro Architecture 45 NM Server

First, new innovations and enhancements to deliver superior performance and energy efficiency

in the second half of 2007, Intel will launch the next generation of Intel Core 2 processor products code-named "Penryn". The Penryn processor family is built on Intel's industry-leading 45 NM (NM) high K metal gate silicon process technology and the latest Intel Core micro-architecture enhancements. The Intel Core micro-architecture has made significant improvements on the basis of Intel's earlier revolutionary Micro-architecture (currently used by the Intel Xeon processor family and the Intel Core 2 processor family) This marks an important step in Intel's annual launch of a new process technology and enhanced micro-architecture or an all-new micro-architecture. The dual-core processor in the

45 nm Penryn family has more than 400 million transistors, and the quad-core processor has more than 800 million transistors. With the new Micro architecture features, the processor family product can also achieve higher performance with constant frequency, while increasing the level of 50% of the two cache and extending the power http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/6926.html "> Management capabilities allow for a new level of energy efficiency performance." The Penryn family also employs nearly 50 new Intel SSE4 directives to further accelerate the speed of media applications and high-performance computing applications.

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    Penryn family will include new dual-core desktop processors, quad-core desktop processors, quad-core server processors, and dual-core mobile processors.

II, Intel Core micro-Architecture

    2006, Intel first introduced the Intel Core micro-architecture into the Intel Core 2 micro-architecture processor with 65 nm silicon process technology. As the first generation of multi-core optimized micro-architecture, it extends the energy efficiency concept first proposed in the mobile micro-architecture of the Intel Pentium M processor and is enhanced with a new set of leading micro-architecture innovations that enable industry-leading performance, higher energy performance, and faster multitasking responsiveness.

    Intel Core micro-architecture innovation features include:

* Intel wide Dynamic Execution

* Intel Intelligent Efficacy Management

* Intel Advanced Smart Cache

* Intel Smart Memory Access

* Intel Advanced Digital Media Enhancements

Intel Core micro-architecture based processors break the performance records of desktop platforms, mobile platforms, and mainstream server platforms in a number of industry-leading performance metrics reviews. (please visit www.intel.com/performance) For example, the 65 NM quad-core Intel Xeon processor delivers performance equivalent to the previous generation of server solution 2.5x. On desktops, systems based on the Intel Core 2 Duo processor can deliver a high 40% performance with lower power consumption. On the mobile platform, laptops based on the Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor offer twice times multitasking performance, as well as higher energy efficiency and more durable battery time.

Third, Intel's 45 nm high K metal grid process technology

January 2007, Intel uses a radically different transistor material (a new material consisting of a high K-gate dielectric and conductor) to build the next generation of Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 The processor family has billions of miniature 45-NM transistors, a technology that has been the most significant improvement in the field of transistor design for 40 years. This breakthrough transistor technology will not only help Intel reduce the transistor leakage currents that affect chip and PC design, size, power and cost, but also enable it to continuously refresh the performance records of PCs, laptops and server processors. By increasing the speed of the transistor switching, this breakthrough technology can also achieve higher kernel and bus clock frequency, so that the power consumption and calorific value of the constant increase in performance. ReversedThis, in turn, has allowed Moore's law to work. (High tech industry law: the number of transistors increases every two years, which can provide more performance at the cost of potential reductions) and will continue to be effective over the next 10 years.

Compared with 65 nm technology, the Intel 45 Nano High K silicon process technology offers the following advantages:

* Transistor density increases nearly one-fold (support for smaller chip size or more transistor number)

* Transistor switching power down near 30%

* Transistor switching speed increased by more than 20%, the source extremely drain leakage rate reduced by more than 5 times times

* transistor gate oxide leakage rate reduced by more than 10 times times, thereby achieving lower power consumption and more durable battery use time

January 2007, Intel showcased the world's first 45 nm high K processor, thereby effectively demonstrating its own process technology than the semiconductor industry to lead the other manufacturers more than one year. Intel co-founder Moore said: "The use of high K and metal gate materials marks the most significant change in the transistor technology field since the introduction of the Polysilicon Gate MOS transistor in the late 1960s." The