Intel® Microarchitecture

As the foundation for Intel's processor-technology, Intel® microarchitecture employs next-generation, 45nm multi-core technology. Optimized to deliver state-of-the-art features that raise the bar on energy-efficient performance, Intel microarchitecture continues to be the catalyst for innovative new designs.

 Nehalem: Next-generation Intel® microarchitecture

• Nehalem: Intel® microarchitecture Next-generation Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, represents the next step in processor energy efficiency, performance, and dynamic scalability.
  
• Intel® QuickPath Technology Unleash the next-generation parallel processing performance of 45nm Intel® microarchitecture with Intel point-to-point high-speed interconnect system architecture.
  

Visual computing Intel® microarchitecture

• Larrabee microarchitecture Discover the many-core visual computing architecture named Larrabee featuring a new software rendering pipeline, a many-core programming model, and performance analysis for several applications.
  

Miracle in miniaturization

Discover Intel's smallest chip built with the world's smallest transistors¹

• Intel® Atom™ processor

Reinventing microarchitecture

Explore next-generation Intel® 45nm high-k metal gate silicon technology providing breakthrough energy-efficiency without compromise to performance.

• Get details on 45nm

Intel® Core™ microarchitecture

• First 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture The first member of the 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture family offers new levels of performance and energy efficiency with nearly twice the transistor density and drastically reduced electrical leakage.
  
• Original Intel® Core™ microarchitecture The foundation for new Intel® architecture-based desktop, notebook, and mainstream server multi-core processors, Intel® Core™ microarchitecture is designed from the ground up for high performance and energy-efficiency.
  
• Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4) Unlock performance and energy efficiency on 32- and 64-bit applications with new instruction set innovations from Intel.
  

Intel® Atom™ microarchitecture

• Intel® Atom™ processor Discover Intel's smallest chip, built with the world's smallest transistors—the Intel® Atom™ processor for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Based on hafnium-based 45nm microarchitecture, Intel Atom processors pack 47 million transistors on a single chip measuring less than 25mm.
  

Next-generation Intel® Itanium® processors

• World's first 2-billion transistor microprocessor See how Intel is breaking the performance barrier with the world's first 2-billion transistor microprocessor (codenamed Tukwila).²
  

¹ Processor and transistor size comparison based on Intel® architecture products in production at the time of product disclosure (March 2008).
² Source: Intel Corporation