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"Nehalem" Taped-out and Running Windows, Socket775 still goes strong

Sep 19, 2007   10 am
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intel-logo Intel’s largest architecture overhaul in decades is less than a year away, “Nehalem”, the next-gen 45nm native quad-core is still in Socket 775.

It wasn’t that long ago that predictions of doom and gloom pinned Intel between a rock and a hard place.  The company’s NetBurst architecture didn’t scale and its Itanium architecture didn’t sell; it looked as if for the first time in history, Moore’s Law was in serious jeopardy. 

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