Nehalem chips are a significant upgrade over Intel’s Core 2 chips, which are currently used in desktops and laptops. The new chips cut bottlenecks of Intel’s earlier Core microarchitecture to improve ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Intel has moved its latest desktop and server chip architecture to the laptop with the announcement of its 45nm Core i7 mobile processor, based on its new Nehalem microarchitecture.

Intel has re-hired Senior Fellow Glenn Hinton to build a new high-performance CPU architecture. Gelsinger's appointment is already having an effect.

The chip is based on the Westmere architecture, which is a manufacturing refresh of the older Nehalem microarchitecture.

The 45 nm ‘tock’ was the Nehalem microarchitecture. Its corresponding CPUs (Lynnfield, Clarksfield, and Bloomfield) employed the Apple-ish Core i3, i5 and i7 marketing names. And now, with the Sandy ...

Intel will be ringing in the New Year with their long-awaited second-generation Core processor, codenamed "Sandy Bridge." It's the "tock" of the company's 32-nanometer fabrication process, which ...

Intel's second-generation Core microarchitecture, code-named Sandy Bridge, unifies and revamps existing technologies—and adds some new ones.

The successors to the Core 2 brand are a set of Nehalem microarchitecture-based processors called Core i3, i5, and i7. Core i7 was officially launched in November 2008 as a family of three quad ...

Intel will release its fastest and highly anticipated eight-core Nehalem-EX server processor later this month, a company executive said late Thursday. The processor will be targeted at four-socket ...

Based on Intel’s award-winning “Nehalem” microarchitecture, these new desktop, mobile and embedded processors deliver smart performance for music, gaming, videos, movies, photos, social networking and ...