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Intel® Microarchitecture

Intel® microarchitecture

As the foundation for Intel's processor-technology, Intel® microarchitecture employs next-generation, 45nm multi-core technology. Optimized to deliver state-of-the-art features that raise the bar on energy-efficient performance, Intel microarchitecture continues to be the catalyst for innovative new designs.

Nehalem: Next-generation Intel® microarchitecture

  • Nehalem: Intel® microarchitecture

    Intel's next-generation microarchitecture (codenamed Nehalem), represents the next step in processor energy efficiency, performance, and dynamic scalability.

  • Intel® QuickPath Technology

    Unleash the next-generation parallel processing performance of 45nm Intel® microarchitecture with Intel's point-to-point high-speed interconnect system architecture.

Visual computing Intel® microarchitecture

  • Larrabee microarchitecture

    Discover the many-core visual computing architecture named Larrabee featuring a new software rendering pipeline, a many-core programming model, and performance analysis for several applications.

Miracle in miniaturization

Discover Intel's smallest chip built with the world's smallest transistors¹

Reinventing microarchitecture

Explore next-generation Intel® 45nm high-k metal gate silicon technology providing breakthrough energy-efficiency without compromise to performance.

Intel® Core™ microarchitecture

  • First 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture

    The first member of the 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture family offers new levels of performance and energy efficiency with nearly twice the transistor density and drastically reduced electrical leakage.

  • Original Intel® Core™ microarchitecture

    The foundation for new Intel® architecture-based desktop, notebook, and mainstream server multi-core processors, Intel® Core™ microarchitecture is designed from the ground up for high performance and energy-efficiency.

  • Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4)

    Unlock performance and energy efficiency on 32- and 64-bit applications with new instruction set innovations from Intel.

Intel® Atom™ microarchitecture

  • Intel® Atom™ processor

    Discover Intel's smallest chip, built with the world's smallest transistors—the Intel® Atom™ processor for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Based on hafnium-based 45nm microarchitecture, Intel Atom processors pack 47 million transistors on a single chip measuring less than 25mm.

Next-generation Intel® Itanium® processors

¹ Processor comparison based on current Intel® architecture products. Transistor comparison based on 45nm processors in production.

² Source: Intel Corporation