• DocumentCode
    1359117
  • Title

    A Family of 32 nm IA Processors

  • Author

    Kurd, Nasser A. ; Bhamidipati, Subramani ; Mozak, Chris ; Miller, Jeffrey L. ; Mosalikanti, Praveen ; Wilson, Timothy M. ; El-Husseini, Ali M. ; Neidengard, Mark ; Aly, Ramy E. ; Nemani, Mahadev ; Chowdhury, Muntaquim ; Kumar, Rajesh

  • Author_Institution
    Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR, USA
  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    119
  • Lastpage
    130
  • Abstract
    Westmere is the latest IA processor family for mobile, desktop and server market segments, implemented on Intel´s second-generation high-k metal gate 32 nm process. Westmere not only increases core count, cache size, and frequency within the previous generation´s power envelope, it also provides further improvements in power efficiency, feature set, and support for combo DDR3 and low voltage DDR3 despite using a thin gate technology.
  • Keywords
    low-power electronics; microprocessor chips; IA processor; Intel; Westmere; combo DDR3; power envelope; second-generation high-k metal gate; size 32 nm; thin gate technology; Clocks; Delay; Driver circuits; Logic gates; Program processors; Servers; Voltage control; IA; Intel® QuickPath; interconnect; memory controller; power management;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9200
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JSSC.2010.2079430
  • Filename
    5607323