Intel Corp (INTC)

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ISSCC 2009 - Abstracts:

3.1 A 45nm 8-Core Enterprise Xeon® Processor
1:30 PM
S. Rusu, S. Tam, H. Muljono, J. Stinson, D. Ayers, J. Chang, R. Varada, M. Ratta, S. Kottapalli
Intel, Santa Clara, CA

An 8-core 16-thread enterprise Xeon® processor has 2.3B transistors in 9M 45nm CMOS. The I/O links use per-lane TX and RX compensation to enable operation up to 6.4GT/s. Vertical and horizontal spines keep the uncore clock skew under 19ps before engaging the compensation. Core and cache shut-off techniques are used to minimize leakage.

3.2 A Family of 45nm IA Processors
2:00 PM
R. Kumar, G. Hinton
Intel, Hillsboro, OR

A family of next-generation IA processors with up to 8 cores, enhanced Core™ microarchitecture, 3-level caches and 2-way SMT is implemented in 45nm high-κ metal-gate CMOS. The family has a coherent point-to-point link and integrates memory controller, power-management microcontroller and power-gate transistors and scales from sub-10 to 130W in mobile, desktop and server applications.