Intel unveils 32-nm family of processors

Last week, Intel unveiled a line up of many new microprocessors built using its latest 32-nanometer process, which the company made a substantial investment in last year. Based on Intel's current Nehalem microarchitecture, the products consist of new Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 processors.

The range of 32-nm dual-core chips for laptops consists of 11 different processors with clock speeds ranging from 1.06 GHz to 2.66 GHz. There are also six dual-core chips meant for desktops, with clock speeds ranging from 2.93 GHz to 3.46 GHz. The ratio of laptop-to-desktop is logical--given that there are now more laptops being sold than desktops.

The new Core i7 and i5 processors comes with "Turbo Boost" technology, which allows the processors to dramatically accelerate its performance in order to cope with any increase in its workload.  On top of that, the Core i7, i3 and i5 processors also comes with hyperthreading in order to perform what Intel calls "smart multitasking," or the ability to dispatch multiple tasks.

Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group elaborated, "If you look at your tasks running in the background, there's always a whole lot of stuff running back there that you didn't know about. By introducing hyperthreading, we're allowing more tasks to be dispatched."

For more on this story:
- check out this article at eWeek
- check out this article at InformationWeek 

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