Nehalem-EP......BLOOMFIELD

[Donnie27]

that's true. But being that they plan on launching Westmere in 2010, there wouldn't be that much time difference between that and Nehalem if it took them a few quarters to ramp up Nehalem.

I remember Intel saying that their tick/tock cadence will be unaffected by anything not even a product delay of a previous product. So i think it will be availability from the get go.

The whole point of penryn was to work out any kinks in the 45nm process and help them ramp up high volume 45nm for the launch of Nehalem.

So it would make sense that if the pricing has pretty much been announced that you'd have availability straight up.

That'd mean they're right on schedule.
Penryn @45nm = Tock 2007
Nehalem @45nm = Tick2008
Nehalem @32nm =Tock 2009
New Architecture 32nm WM = Tock 2010 tick
Above @22nm = Tick 2011 tock