Is Nehalem a 45 nm or 32 nm CPU?
This question has confused a lot of people so let’s set the record straight. Nehalem is a 45 nm processor. What Intel has announced is that they will be optically shrinking the Nehalem architecture some time in 2009 to 32 nm but that processor will not be called Nehalem at all but Westmere. Much of the confusion arises from the fact that on some earlier roadmaps, Intel called the Westmere by the name Nehalem-C. Westmere will boast AES-NI which will encrypt/decrypt three times faster than current AES and may arrive with integrated graphics (I know, I know… AMD Fusion… zzzzzzzzzz).
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