Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel"s Digital Enterprise Group discussed new features of the company"s next-generation processor family including a new turbo mode that shifts the processor into a higher gear for increased performance without a heat penalty.
The company"s first desktop PC chips branded Intel Core i7 processors and initial energy-efficient, high-performance server products (codenamed Nehalem-EP) will be first to production. Intel is also planning to manufacture a second server derivative designed for the expandable sever market (Nehalem-EX), and desktop (Havendale and Lynnfield) and mobile (Auburndale and Clarksfield) client versions in the second half of 2009.