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[Professor MD]

Dear wbmw. Re: There is a town in Oregon named Nehalem.

My post was a correction of the mistaken assumption that Nechalem was designed in Oregon.

A quote from Wikipedia:
Sandy Gridge is the code name for a processor that is being developed by Intel and is the planned successor to Nehalem. Intel is already into the development process for Sandy Bridge. Sandy Bridge uses the 32 nm manufacturing methods from Westmere (formerly known as Nehalem-C) and applies it to the new Sandy Bridge microarchitecture[1]. The former codename for this core was Gesher (means 'bridge' in Hebrew), but that codename was abandoned on 17 April 2007 because a political party in Israel is also named Gesher, as mentioned in Justin Rattner's keynote at IDF Spring 2007[2].
Nehalem microarchitecture -- Upcoming microarchitecture expected to be released in 2008, built on a 45nm process. It will be an enhanced version of the Core microarchitecture.