Nehalem Info from hkepc

[Shintai]

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.

Nehalem cores aint that much bigger. Also 4 cores and 8MB shared L2 cant be in under 250mm2? Funny since yorkfield can cram 4 cores and 12MB shared L2 into 214mm2.

And call me blind. But this Nehalem core dont seem to be Barcelona size.



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