Intel details upcoming new processor generations

MUMBAI

APRIL 3, 2007

Marking the next step in Intel's "tick-tock" product strategy and
cadence to deliver a new process technology with an enhanced microarchitecture
or entirely new microarchitecture every year, Intel Corporation will begin
producing its next-generation Penryn family of processors in the second half of
this year. These new processors benefit from enhancements to the Intel Core
microarchitecture and also Intel's industry-leading 45nm Hi-k process technology
with its hafnium-based high-K + metal gate transistor design, which results in
higher performance and more energy-efficient processors.

Intel has more than 15 45nm Hi-k product designs in various stages of
development, and will have two 45nm manufacturing fabs in production by the end
of the year, with a total of four in production by the second half of 2008 that
will deliver tens of millions of these processors. Below are many of the details
of the Penryn processor family and a glimpse into some of the key features of
Intel's future generation of processors, codenamed Nehalem.

A Range of Products -- Six Penryn family processors, including dual and
quad-core desktop processors and a dual core mobile processor are all under the
Intel Core processor brand name as well as new dual and quad-core server
processors under the Intel Xeon processor brand name. A processor for higher-end
server multiprocessing systems is also under development. As previously noted,
Intel already has a total of 15 45nm products scheduled.

45nm next-generation Intel Core2 quad-core processors will have 820 million
transistors. Thanks to our high-k metal transistor invention, think of 820
million more power efficient light bulbs going on and off at light-speeds. The
dual-core version has a die size of 107mm2, which is 25 percent smaller than
Intel's current 65nm products - and quarter of the size of the average U.S.
postage stamp - and operate at the same or lower power than Intel's current dual
core processors.

The mobile Penryn processor has a new advanced power management state called
Deep Power Down Technology that significantly reduces the power of the processor
during idle periods such that internal transistor power leakage is no longer a
factor. This helps extend battery life in laptops. This is a major advancement
over previous generation industry leading Intel mobile processors.

For the mobile Penryn processor, Intel has enhanced the Intel Dynamic
Acceleration Technology available in current Intel Core 2 processors. This
feature uses the power headroom freed up when a core is made inactive to boost
the performance of another still active core. Imagine a shower with two powerful
water shower heads, when one shower head is turned off, the other has increased
water pressure (performance).

Penryn includes Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4) instructions, the
largest unique instruction set addition since the original SSE Instruction Set
Architecture (ISA). This extends the Intel 64 instruction set architecture to
expand the performance and capabilities of the Intel Architecture.