Original 45nm Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

Foreword

• Foreword

  Ofri Wechsler, Intel Fellow, Manager, MG CPU Architecture

Current Articles

• Original 45nm Intel® Core™2 Processor Performance

  These authors introduce you to the 45 nm Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture and discuss improvements in SSE4.1 instructions, larger caches, faster divide techniques, and better load balancing across cache boundaries.

• Power Management Enhancements in the 45nm Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

  Learn about the exciting power management enhancements, such as the Deep Power Down Technology and quad-core enhancements, delivered by engineers for the Penryn family of processors.

• Improvements in the Intel® Core™2 Penryn Processor Family Architecture and Microarchitecture

  The Penryn family of processors’s microarchitecture is tuned to speed up super scalar processing. In this paper, Intel engineers explore a new instruction set, SSE4.1, enhancing graphics and video applications, as well as a new Radix-16 divider.

• Mobility Thin and Small Form-Factor Packaging for Intel® Processors Based on Original 45nm Intel Core Microarchitecture

  Following a creative 24-hour work schedule that spanned the globe, Intel engineers explain how they designed a package that balanced compatibility with predecssor design, was cost efficient to manufacture both for Intel and OEMs, and could be thoroughly validated.

• The Technical Challenges of Transitioning Intel® PRO/Wireless Solutions to a Half-Mini Card

  Read how Intel engineers overcame the design challenges of building a Wi-Fi Wireless communications daughter board in a smaller form factor. Even more, learn what they did to make it half the size of its predecessor.

• Greater Mobility Through Lower Power

  These authors focus on differentiation, something the OEMs desire to make their mark in the mobile computing market. They explore design attributes that are enhanced by the Penryn family of processors: thickness, temperature, and noise level.

• Power Improvements on 2008 Desktop Platforms

  Environmental concerns now have a huge impact on the computer industry. Without sacrificing performance and without incurring huge price increases, designers and engineers must deliver but in an energy-efficient manner. Power-management techniques that do just this are presented by these authors.

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