This month, Intel moves on from the Core microarchitecture to the
next generation of processors for mobile, desktop and servers,
codenamed Nehalem and officially named the Core i7 family.
We've spent a few weeks with Intel’s test kit for the new desktop
part, codenamed Bloomfield, as well as the new compatible motherboard
chipset the X58 Express, codenamed Tylersburg.
The new platform represents a fundamental change in the way Intel
processors communicate with the rest of the system, but more on that
later.
Tick-Tock: this one is a tock
Intel's
tick-tock development process means every "tick" of the clock is a
minor update to processor architecture (such as a process shrink),
while the "tock" is a major upgrade to the architecture.
Since adopting this process, Intel's first "tick" was the process
shrink for Presler, Yona
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