Go fast, go long—Intel releases the Lynnfield platform
Posted by Jon Peddie on September 22nd 2009 | Permalink
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Lynnfield is Intel’s first mainstream Nehalem, and is being marketed as Core i5. It’s built in 45nm, has 4 cores, and Hyper Threading, 8MB of shared L3 memory, and Turbo Boost Technology for dynamic frequency scaling. The Core i5, again like the i7, has an integrated 1333 MHz DDR3 memory controller, but the Lynnfield’s is dual channel instead of triple channel. Unlike Core i7, Lynnfield communicates directly with PCI-e 2.0 graphics, though at a maximum of x16 lanes, which requires splitting them x8/x8 in multiple AIB setups. Since the CPU can interface directly to memory and graphics, no northbridge is needed…
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