Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
Nehalems cores are not much larger. IMC+CSI doesnt take that much space. And cache is 67% of yorkfield. Trust me. Its under 200mm2.

Also Intel would never manufactor a 270mm2+ single die chip today unless it was an Itanium grade.

PCwatch also said it was L3 cache or something earlier and other things. They aint much better.
Huh ? Nehalem cores are 35% bigger than Penryn's.That huge!
Nehalem is ~270-280mm^2 , you simply cannot cram 4 cores and a shared 8MB L2 cache in under 250mm^2.

The biggest Nehalem CPU will be an octo core at 32nm.
As a matter of fact , Nehalem EX Becton 8 core is a 45nm product scheduled for mid-late 09.Intel said they will demo it this year ; there's no way it could be 32nm ( that process goes online in late 09 ).