Quote Originally Posted by adamsleath View Post
32nm is a 'future' shrink of nehalem (an Intel "tick")
and then a 32nm "tock" will bring new architecture - some bollox like that anyway....

going by the marketing "tick tock" spiel
penryns are 45nm tick and first 45nm nehalems are the tock

which in my mind seems to indicate that a shrink is attempted without much mod to the basic architecture of the chip then a more significant arch change is introduced at the new fab/process level.

then they shrink it again...

but im also wondering whether the LGA1160 socket will be better than the 1366 socket design, and also whether 1160 will have triple channel ddr3 or if 1366 socket is the only one to have triple channel?
What happens when we are done with the nanometers?