Thursday, August 14th 2008
Nehalem's Successors Caught on Slides at IDF
French website CanardPlus published slides from Intel covering its future plans and product evolution model called the "tick tock" model in which an architecture is released every time frame and improvised following it, where the fabrication process is shrunk and some features added. Les nouveaux CPU suivront donc le schéma de développement « The new CPU release will follow the pattern of development "Tick-Tock", ie a new architecture every two years (Tock), followed by a die shrink (Tick) to increase the fine print.
Nehalem processors are made of logic-blocks (cores, without some machinery) blocks provide modularity and products can be engineered on the quality and quantity of these blocks. An insight to the architecture is provided.
Successors to Nehalem
Sandybridge: Planned for 2010, this will succeed current Nehalem chips, the base architecture on the whole is similar to that of Nehalem, codenamed Gesher. It will have 8 cores, 16 MB of L3 cache and a new instruction set called Advanced Vector Extensions.
Its entry is expected to be as significant as that of SSE in 1999 for the Pentium III for the computing world, mainly because:
Source:
CanardPlus
Sandybridge: Planned for 2010, this will succeed current Nehalem chips, the base architecture on the whole is similar to that of Nehalem, codenamed Gesher. It will have 8 cores, 16 MB of L3 cache and a new instruction set called Advanced Vector Extensions.
- The extension of the current SSE registers 128 to 256 bits, while remaining compatible with 128-bit SSE instructions.
- The rearrangement advanced data: a single operation can simultaneously handle 8 data bits 32
34 Comments on Nehalem's Successors Caught on Slides at IDF
...don't ask.
...because I just made it up and don't have an explanation quite yet.
Nehalem has problems which Intel is trying to keep under cover but amd has caught on and is rushing in there deneb/shanghai, Intel will be stuck like nvidia and have no reply until min 6/12 months. which why Intel are rushing there next cpu.. wow amd did it, amd did say Nehalem will have problems which amd has experience of about 5 years (Nehalem is a exact copy of amd Opterons)
so AMD wins as soon as the deneb and shanghai comes out.. amd knew this at least 6/8 months ago, thats why they stayed quite all that time..
intel has released tons of info abouth nehalem last fiew months