EDN's 18th Annual Innovation Awards Finalists
-- EDN, February 1, 2008
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&& PREVIOUS FINALIST | MAIN | NEXT FINALIST >> Category: Multicore Microprocessors WINNER: QX9650 Core 2 Extreme processor (Intel)  Intel implements its Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core processor on the company’s 45-nm manufacturing process, which enables more performance with better energy efficiency. The process incorporates a Hafnium-base high-k metal gate (hi-k) formula into each of the 820 million transistors in each processor. Further enhancements include a larger dual 6-Mbyte shared L2 cache (12 Mbytes total) and support for new Intel SSE4 media instructions. Each of the four cores can complete up to four full instructions simultaneously. |
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