2nd GENERATION INTEL® CORE™

PROCESSOR FAMILY

Michael Vierheilig

2nd GENERATION INTEL® CORE™PROCESSOR FAMILY

Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

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NewMicro-

architecture

Merom

65nm

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Penryn

NewProcess

Technology

45nm

Intel® MicroarchitectureCodename Nehalem

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NewMicro-

architecture

Nehalem

45nm

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Westmere

32nm

NewProcess

Technology

Intel® MicroarchitectureCodename Sandy Bridge

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SandyBridge

32nm

NewMicro-

architecture

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Ivy Bridge

22nm

NewProcess

Technology

Intel® MicroarchitectureCodename Haswell

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Haswell

22nm

NewMicro-

architecture

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Future

NewProcess

Technology

New Intel® Microarchitecture for

2011/2012

2011/12

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 Processor Family

Processor, Graphics, and IMC on one die!

Graphics & IMC

Processor

SecurityLower

averagepower

increasein performance

OptimizedTurbo

“SandyBridge

”

• More instructions per cycle• Shared cache between CPU and Processor Graphics

• IMC improves memory bandwidth and workload performance, HT, Turbo boost

Performance

Power Efficiency

• Improved average power targets• Hardware controlled power sharing between CPU and Processor Graphics

• Single die with CPU, Graphics, and IMC

• CPU & Processor Graphics on 32nm process

• Intel® HD Graphics 2000/3000 graphics within the same TDP envelope

Architecture

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 Processor-based Platforms for Embedded Computing

Processor• Quad/Dual Core Processor with Processor

Graphics and Integrated Memory Controller• Integration of Processor Graphics w/ 2

independent displays• Support for DDR3 1600/1333/1066**• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)**• ECC memory support**

Processor• Quad/Dual Core Processor with Processor

Graphics and Integrated Memory Controller• Integration of Processor Graphics w/ 2

independent displays• Support for DDR3 1600/1333/1066**• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)**• ECC memory support**

Platform Controller Hub (PCH)• Two Display Streams supported in any

combination of DisplayPort*, HDMI, DVI and VGA

• Additional USB, PCIe*, and SATA ports• Enhanced Manageability features:

• Intel® Active Management Technology 7.0• Intel® Trusted Execution Technology• Enhanced Security features

Sandy Bridge Low Power Platform Overview

*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

** Certain features are available on select SKUs only. See configuration tables for details

Huron River Platform

CPU

rPGA: Intel® Core™ i7-2710QE, Intel® Core™ i5-2510E, Intel® Celeron® B810

BGA: Intel® Core™ i7-2715QE, Intel® Core™ i7-2655LE, Intel® Core™ i7-2610UE, Intel® Core™ i5-2515E, Intel® Core™ i7-2310E, Intel® Celeron® B810E, Intel® Celeron® 847E, Intel® Celeron® 827E, Intel® Celeron® 807UE

TDPrPGA: SV (45W/35W)

BGA : SV (35W), LV(25W), ULV (17W), ULV(10W)

ECC Yes (BGA Pkg Only)

CPU I/O Port Bifurcation PCI-Express** 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4

PCH Intel® QM67/HM65 Express Chipsets

Processor or Discrete Graphics

Huron River+ECCProcessors**

Mobile Intel® QM67, HM65

Express Chipsets

PCH

Huron River

2/4 Core

4/8 Threads

Intel® High Definition Audio

USB 2.0 Ports

PCI Express, 8x1 Lanes 2.5 GT/s

SATA

PCI Bus Masters

1or2CH DDR3: 1066/1333/1600

BIOS Support

SPI

GbE LAN PHY

DMIIntel® Flex Display

Interface

Display Interfaces3 Ports – Can Mix:

DisplayPort*/DVI/HDMI/SVDO

VGA & LVDS

eDP

Or 2x8 I/O (2.5GT/s)

PCI Express* x16 Graphics

(Embedded Display Port (eDP)**

Or PCIe Graphics x16

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 Processor Overview

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 Processors introduce Intel’s first monolithic

CPU & Graphics solution for maximum performance!

First Monolithic die that integrates CPU,

Gfx, and PCU

Up to 8MB of Intel® Smart

Cache

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology

6 or 12 Graphics EUs (1 or 2 graphics

cores) on a monolithic die

New Intel® AVX Instructions

Next GenerationIntel® HD Graphics

IMC supporting up to 2ch DDR3-1333

Optimized Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-NI)

Instructions

De-Muxed EDP provides concurrency with discrete GFx

for reduced power consumption

PECI 3.0 integrated into SNB with direct routing

to the EC

PECI

2ch DDR3

x16 PEG

EDP

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Core LLC

Core LLC

Core LLC

Core LLC

System AgentDisplay

PCIe I/O Display Ports

DMI

IMC

“Cougar Point” Mobile Chipset Overview

10/100/1000 LAN PHY

Dual Ch. DDR3

Sandy Bridge

2.0

2.0

Cougar Point

3.0

DMI

DP 1.1

FDI

SM

Bus

LPC

SP

I

Aud

io

Certain features may not be available on all SKUs.

Sandy Bridge-Mbl and Ivy Bridge-Mbl CPU Support

SATA 6Gb/s for Next Gen SSD/HDDs

AMT 7 Manageability and Security Features

Full Clock Integration

PCI Express Gen2 at5GT/s

Intel® Rapid Storage Technology

Enhancements

Digital Display Support

PAVP 2.0 HiDef Content Protection

Storage Power Savings

Platform Block Diagram

Express Card 2.0

Lewisville GbE LAN

Discrete Graphics

SATA Drives2 x Flash

DDR3 (w/ ECC) 1067 or 1333 MHz

DisplayPort/HDMI

DisplayPort/HDMI

LPC

14 USB2 ports

8x1 PCI Express Gen2 (configurable)

SMBus

2x SATA 6G

4x SATA 3GHD Audio

LVDS

eDP Panel

or LVDS

CRT

DisplayPort

External Monitor/HDMI

DisplayPort

External Monitor/HDMI

Flexible Display Interface (FDI) DMI

Embedded DisplayPort

SDVO/DP/HDMI

PCI Express

0

PCI Express x16

(configurable)

Analog VGA

SPI

PCIe CardBus

SMBus

PECI

USB Ports

Super I/O

Embedded Controller

TPM

Audio Codec

DDR3 (w/ ECC)1067 or 1333 MHz

Sandy Bridge-CPU

4-Core(or 2-Core) and Cache

DDR32-Ch

PCU and Sys Agent

Graphics and

Media

Display Clock

ME/VE

Cougar Point-Mbl

USB PortsUSB PortsUSB Ports

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0

Four-Core Turbo Dual-Core Turbo

Single-Core Turbo Idle mode

Base Frequencies

Turbo bins

“Dynamic” Range @ Turbo Frequency limits2

Note1: See Intel® Turbo Boost Technology disclaimer in the back-upNote2: Dynamic Range does not represent additional Turbo binsNote3: The number of Turbo bins shown is only for illustrative purposes and is not representative of the actual number of turbo bins available.

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 delivers intelligent and energy efficient performance on

demand

Dynamic.Boosts power level to achieve

performance gains for high intensity “dynamic” workloads

Adapts by varying turbo frequency to conserve

energy depending upon the type of instructions

Efficient. Intelligent.Power averaging algorithm

manages power and thermal headroom to optimize

performance

CPU Cores

Gfx Core

Idle mode

Base Frequencies

CPU Turbo bins & Graphics Dynamic Frequency (with Dynamic Range)

Graphics Dynamic Frequency and Power Sharing

Power sharing algorithm works in concert with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 to deliver performance when and where needed

Intel® HD Graphics with Dynamic Frequency delivers graphics performance boost to graphics intensive applications

Performance boost to graphics intensive applications when power and thermal headroom

exist

Power Sharing between CPU and Graphics Cores

Without Intel® Hyper-Threading

Technology

CORE

CORE

CORE

CORE

What is it? • Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology

enables each processor core to run two tasks at the same time

• Two thread engines per core, enabling 4-way processing in dual

core systems and 8-way processing in quad core systems

• Available with the new Intel® Core™ family of processors

Benefits for consumers• More threads and smart

multitasking equals better performance

• Faster response time = less waiting

With Intel® Hyper-Threading

Technology

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology

Sandy Bridge Premium Graphics (GT2)

Series10

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

Relative 3DMark06 Pro-jections

Arrandale GT1 GT2

GT2: Performance Boost

~100% over Arrandale

• Performance Boost – graphics future proofing for more demanding 3D

• Same Socket, TDP, Average Power as GT1 – same design, chassis / motherboard and battery life

Premium (GT2) Graphic

s

• Excellent Performance for Mainstream Graphics and Media Experiences

Standard (GT1)

Graphics

Sandy Bridge

GT16 EU

Sandy Bridge

GT212 EU

Double the Graphics Performance* with theSame Chassis, Socket, TDP, Average Power and Validation!

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processors deliver visual experiences targeted to consumers

Built-in Visuals - “Visibly Smart”

Intel® Quick Sync Video

Intel® InTru™ 3D

Intel® Clear Video HD

Intel® Wireless Display

Intel® HD Graphics

3000

Intel®Advanced Vector

Extensions

Intel® Insider*

Tremendous visual editing performance

Immersive mainstream gaming experience

PC content on your TV wire free hassle free

SpectacularHD playback

Seamless 1080pStereo3Dplayback

Incredibly fast edit/ share of content

1080p HD movies delivered on your PC

New Intel® Advanced Vector Extension (AVX) Instructions

Intel® AVX improves floating point & vector computation for media and high performance computing applications up to 2x!

A set of new instructions that will unleash the power of the CPU and improve software performance

Faster PerformanceImproves floating point intensive applications such as audio processing and audio codecs, image and video editing applications, financial services analysis and modeling software, and manufacturing and engineering software.

Power EfficientIncreased performance with minimal power gains

ExtensibleBackward compatible with legacy IA. Designed for future ISA extension

UbiquitousAvailable in notebooks to high end servers

http://www.intel.com/software/avxto get more info

Tools available for ISV enabling

Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions

Newest in a long line of processor instruction innovations

New 256-bit Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)Built on legacy 128-bit SIMD (SSEx) and 64-bit SIMD (MMX)

ISA extensionsEnhancements to 128-bit SIMD instructionsSupport for 3 and 4 -operand syntax

Increases floating point operations per clock up to 2X1 for technical, financial, scientific & content creation applications

Performance to solve your most complex problems e.g. in Military,

Medical, Communications andIndustrial applications

Other Intel® Platform Technologies

Intel® Embedded Platforms

Intel® Multi-CoreTechnology

Intel® VirtualizationTechnology

Intel®Active

ManagementTechnology

Intel®64bit

Technology

Intel®Trusted

ExecutionTechnology

Intel®QuickAssistTechnology

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Up to 80% performance boost vs. prior gen1

Dramatically reduce compute time with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions

Performance when you need it with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0

Intel® Integrated I/O with Intel® Data Direct I/Ocuts latency2 while adding capacity & bandwidth

Up to 4 channels DDR3 1600 Mhz memory

Up to 8 cores Up to 20 MB cache

Integrated PCI Express* 3.0Up to 40 lanes per socket

The Heart of a Next-Generation Data Center

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More Capabilities for a Next-Generation Data Center

= New On E5-2600

More Cores

More Memory

More Integration

More Bandwidth

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others

40 lanesPCIe* 3.0

Industry-Leading

Features Intel® Core™ i7 vPro™

Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™

Intel® Core™ i7

Intel® Core™ i5

Intel® Core™ i3

Intel® vPro™ Technology1

Intel® Turbo Boost

Technology 2.02

Intel® AES New Instructions3

Built-inVisuals

Multi-taskProcessing4

8-way 4-way 8-way 4-way 4-way

L3 Cache Up to 8MB

Up to 4MB

Up to 8MB

Up to4MB

Up to4MB

Select the Right Intel® Core™ Processor

3

SecurityConnectivityEnergy-Efficient

Performance

Best transistors enable the most capable, efficient

devices

All devices seamlessly inter-

connected

Protected devices, activities

and content

Leadership Across the Three Pillars

Delivers Value to End Users

Malware protection Anti-theft Identity & privacy

protection New commerce

models Password and data

protection

• Best experiences• Superior battery

life• Leading graphics

and media performance

• Rich integration capabilities

• Always On, Always Connected

• Multi-comms support

• Faster access and transfer speeds

Winning = Great Silicon + Embedded Mindset

Purpose Built Embedded Solutions

Preserving Architecture Investment

Embedded

PC

Long Life Cycle Support

World’s Best Enablement

CPUs from PetaFlops to Milliwatts

Re-ConfigurabilityWorkload

Accelerators Opened Interfaces

The Architecture

2003 2005 2007 20092011

90 nm 65 nm 45 nm 32 nm22 nm

Invented SiGe

Strained Silicon

2nd Gen.SiGe

Strained Silicon

2nd Gen. Gate-Last

High-k Metal Gate

Invented Gate-Last

High-kMetal Gate

First to Implement

Tri-Gate

STRAINED SILICON

HIGH-k METAL GATE

TRI-GATE

22nmA

Revolutionary Leap in Process

Technology

37%Performance Gain at Low Voltage*

>50%Active Power Reduction at

Constant Performance*

Coming Soon: 22nm

The foundation for all computing The foundation for all computing

Source: Intel*Compared to Intel 32nm Technology

Thank you!