posted by Bill Kircos on November 18, 2008
Following the Core i7 (Nehalem) launch yesterday, here are two places for those looking for the top Intel news announcements and achievements this year. The first is Pat Gelsinger’s blog from a couple of weeks ago around what Intel’s Hafnium-based, reinvented transistor and 45 nanometer manufacturing prowess has helped the company achieve.
The second is this 3-page fact sheet just posted on the Intel press room that captures most (but not all) of our 08 highlights. To keep things to just 3 pages, we had to omit a lot of news from a company that sells more than 200 products and has 100s of R&D, software, Intel capital investment and other projects and activities underway.
This meant that even some bigger news like the DreamWorks 3-D movie-making revolution and switch to Intel processors and CERN’s announcement on the Hadron Collider and how our Xeon processors helped, among others, got cut.
What did we miss (minus, oh, the economic upheaval from the last few weeks)?
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tagged: Core i7, Dreamworks, gelsinger, Nehalem, transistor
posted by Ken Kaplan on November 13, 2008
I first met Stephen Gunther at an “Eco-Nehalem” briefing in San Francisco in October. He and his team are redefining what it means to be “power-wise” with the new processor design codenamed Nehalem, which will hit the market starting November 17 as Intel Core i7 processors.
Stephen is a Power Management Architect who is helping optimize the four compute cores that make up Core i7 chips so that one, two or three of the cores can shut down to zero power consumption while the other three, two or one core(s) can get the balance of electricity required to muscle through video rendering or coast smoothly enough for leisure Internet surfing.
In this video, Stephen describes the energy-to-performance optimization of Turbo Mode, which is a new function built onto Core i7 chips.
In addition to explaining that Core i7 processors have:
….Stephen showed me how the new Power Gate Transistors work. These are integrated power switches placed between the power supply that feeds each core. These are the actual switches that can bring the power consumption of each core down to zero. When I first saw this, it felt like Intel chip designers were “putting on-off switches where no on-off switches had been before.”
These are just a few of new performance and power-wise features inside Core i7 processors that gather more “intelligence” so the chips know how to adapt to specific performance needs while remaining trained on consuming less energy whenever possible.
Stephen reminded me that Turbo Mode, Power Gates and other features together build upon the benefits that are already exist in the 731 million 45nm High-K metal gate transistors, Intel’s leading edge tiny engines that leak very little electricity and can turn on and off with mind blowing speed.
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tagged: Core i7, Intel Core i7, Nehalem, Power Efficiency, processor, Turbo Mode
posted by Pat Gelsinger on November 10, 2008
Today marks a major milestone: the one-year anniversary of shipping the world’s first ever Intel processors manufactured on our 45 nanometer process—based on an entirely new ‘high-k metal gate’ transistor formula.
And what a year it has been for this manufacturing and uniquely-flavored transistor combo
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tagged: 45nm, atom, Core 2 Duo, Core i7, high-k, Intel, MID, Moore's Law, nehalem, processor, xeon
posted by Ken Kaplan on November 07, 2008
I got to meet Sr. Principal Engineer Ronak Singhal and Steve Gunther on the day they shared their “eco-wise” insights about the new Nehalem microprocessor architecture before a gathering of technical press in San Francisco last month.
With the IT industry contributing to 2% of the world’s carbon emissions, Ronak and Steve looked back at Intel’s history of building energy-efficient into microprocessors then looked at Intel’s Tick-Tock model for design and manufacturing. That was the set up for what’s next: new energy smart power management features being built in the upcoming Intel Core i7 family of processors (codenamed Nehalem).
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tagged: 45nm, Chip Design, Core i7, energy efficiency., Nehalem
posted by Connie Brown on November 04, 2008
There’s an interesting post today on Arianna Huffington’s blog. She declares the Internet the winner in this year’s U.S. Presidential race. I couldn’t agree more.
From the amount of laptops and internet-connected mobile devices to the real time results sliced and diced anyway you want them, the Internet is best way to see the election unfold. The post on Huffington’s blog also has a list of sites that will be providing coverage.
It’s not just today and the results, this race has used the Internet like no other election before it and it’s just a taste of what’s to come in the future.
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tagged: blogging, election, Intel, internet, laptops, mobile, notebooks, social media
posted by Bill Kircos on November 03, 2008
In advance of our Core i7 launch coming in a couple of weeks, we sent out hundreds of pre-production processors to some of ther world’s top computer reviewers.
You can find their thoughts by visiting their sites, or searching Core i7 via Google or Yahoo News. Intel has also started tagging many of them here.
I’ve been playing around with Wordle (www.wordle.net), a very cool site that canvasses all the words in a document, URL, RSS feed or tag, and develops a ‘cloud’ of the most popular terms. So here’s one more way to look at the reviews, and most common words used taken from our tagged site.
Thanks to http://www.wordle.net/ for the pic and details.
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tagged: chips, Core i7, performance, processors, product reviews
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