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CPU roadmap: 2008 and beyond

Rich Brown & Michelle Thatcher CNET

Published: 22 Apr 2008

Intel and AMD's roadmap plans

	Intel	AMD
H1 2008	Penryn mobile chips and Montevina mobile platform	Socket AM3 desktop chipset Puma mobile platform
H2 2008	45nm Nehalem desktop chips with QuickPath Interconnect	45nm Opteron workstation chips
2009 and beyond	32nm Westmere desktop chips Nehalem-based mobile chips Clarksfield and Auburnsdale CPU with on-die GPU	45nm desktop chips Shrike mobile platform combining CPU and GPU
Recap: dawn of the multicore era	From the Pentium D 840 to Penryn	From the Athlon 64 X2 to Barcelona

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