In the course of the current session IDF fall 2006 representatives Intel announced that processors with the architecture of the following generation can get the integrated memory controller. Then we were joined to the opinion of our associates, who calculated the architecture Of nehalem by the first candidate for the arrangement of the long-awaited intel memory controller .
New information on this theme was published by our associate. Associates explained that in 2008 0.045 m processors nehalem will exist as minimum in two design concepts:
- Socket H - > LGA 715;
- Socket B - > LGA 1366.
The number after the symbols " LGA " in this case is equal to the quantity of processor pins . If Socket H with its 715 pins seems economical after the present LGA 775 socket, then Socket B will have 1366 contacts (up to 91% more than in Socket H)
As associates explain, 1366 contacts to the processors nehalem of this type are necessary for the work of the built-in memory controller. the processors socket H will work without the built-in memory controller. Possible to assume that processors socket B will be prescribed in some specific segment, where the benefit from the use of the integrated controller is most obvious. For example, in server or mobile processors - depending from intel.
By the way, processors nehalem will obtain the long-awaited update - it will support the bus: CSI, which will become the answer Of intel to the hyperTransport. It was previously considered that the support of this bus for the first time will appear in the server segment. However, taking into account tendency toward to increase the number of core in the desktop systems, it is not possible to exclude the probability of its fast debut in the this sector.
Thus, the inevitable change of motherboards for intel processors to the amateurs of continuous upgrade :-) will be in 2008. However, they can encounter problem earlier, as in 2007 intel will start the release of desktop processors with 1333 MHz system bus, which are not officially supported by the existing motherboards.