Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU

Many readers wrote in with news of Intel's revelations yesterday about its upcoming Penryn and Nehalem cores. Information has been trickling out about Penryn, but the big news concerns Nehalem — the "tock" to Penryn's "tick." Nehalem will be a scalable architecture with some products having on-board memory controller, "on-package" GPU, and up to 16 threads per chip. From Ars Technica's coverage: "...Intel's Pat Gelsinger also made a number of high-level disclosures about the successor to Penryn, the 45nm Nehalem core. Unlike Penryn, which is a shrink/derivative of Core 2 Duo (Merom), Nehalem is architected from the ground up for 45nm. This is a major new design, and Gelsinger revealed some truly tantalizing details about it. Nehalem has its roots in the four-issue Core 2 Duo architecture, but the direction that it will take Intel is apparent in Gelsinger's insistence that, 'we view Nehalem as the first true dynamically scalable microarchitecture.' What Gelsinger means by this is that Nehalem is not only designed to take Intel up to eight cores on a single die, but those cores are meant to be mixed and matched with varied amounts of cache and different features in order to produce processors that are tailored to specific market segments." More details, including Intel's slideware, appear at PC Perspectives and HotHardware.

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Re:Is AMD beaten?

[treeves]

No, spelling correction. Almost as bad.

Re:OT: Re:Is AMD beaten?

[Fordiman]

I should probably apologize. It's rude to correct others' spelling/grammar. But I'm sorry; the 'loose'/'lose' thing gets to me in a bad way. Like, I can't actually take what they say seriously if I see they've made that error.

I can take its/it's, and I can take their/they're/there, but lose/loose.... I understand in terms of what I hear as I read; I come across 'loose' in my head where 'lose' should be (or worse, 'looser'), and it just throws me completely off.