Quote Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX View Post
Nehalem is a complete socket change no?
i found nothing that said it was a new package or stay the old one...i think they want to keep AMD guessing!

On to Nehalem!
This is where things really get interesting. Intel based Penryn on the Core 2 Duo architecture it designed for the 65nm process. Nehalem should take full advantage of the 45nm process Intel will introduce this year. Here's what Intel has planned:


Two threads per core
Up to eight cores on a chip
An integrated DDR3 memory controller
Integrated graphics on some chips
Dedicated cache memory on each core, plus a large shared cache.
Production will begin in 2008

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/003951.html