Intel Nehalem Photo debut

[schnulli]

It has pretty much alway been like this and that's why I can't figure where you came up with this.....(sorry, I don't intent to be a bit blunt)

hmm, no. in the end i think they just got confused with the terms IMC and CSI. so for now we can assume that IMC is a feature of the whole new nehalem family, but what about CSI?

CSI will be used as the internal fabric for almost all future Intel systems starting with Tukwila, an Itanium processor and Nehalem, an enhanced derivative of the Core microarchitecture, slated for 2008. Not only will CSI be the cache coherent fabric between processors, but versions will be used to connect I/O chips and other devices in Intel based systems.

http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cf...WT082807020032

EDIT: that pcwatch diagram is new for me (my bad): still DMI for desktop? no tri-channel? meh...

Bloomfield's performance bonus will come from a few things.[...]Third, it probably stands a better chance at overclocking due to the fact that the PCI lanes are not onboard.

what did u mean by that? CSI