Intel Presents The Westmere Family Of Processors
Yesterday Intel introduced its plans concerning the upcoming Westmere family of processors, a set of processors built using the company's 32 nm second generation high-K silicon fabrication technology, based on the Nehalem micro architecture. This means that Intel will launch the first working 32 nm bassed microprocessor in both mobile and desktop systems by the end of the current year. The new process will minimize production costs and make the company ready to supply a large demand of chips. The increase in transistor count over its previous generation enables Intel to expand the SIMD instruction set beyond SSE 4.1 (presumably with SSE 4.2). Intel also added a brief note on seven new instructions (AES extensions) for accelerating encryption/decryption algorithms.
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