Intel advances 32nm mobile CPU+GPU rollout to Q1 2010
Expect a big shift away from today's Core 2 architecture when Intel finally released mobile processors based on its 'Nehalem' chip design - particularly come Q1 2010 and the debut of 32nm mobile CPUs.
Mobile Nehalems - in the form of the four-core 'Clarksfield' processor' are due to debut late in Q3 2009 - probably in September - according to the chip giant's latest roadmap, as posted by Japanese-language site PCWatch.
Clarksfield will be the key component of 'Calpella', the next major version of Intel's Centrino platform. Calpella will almost certainly debut as Centrino 3, following the chip giant's scheme to make new Centrino releases more clearly stand out from previous ones.
According to the roadmap, the two or three first-gen Clarksfield parts will run at 2GHz or more and contain 8MB of cache - including L3 - plus a PCI Express 2.0 controller to allow it to connect directly to a graphics chip.
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