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Just as AMD was catching up Intel went ahead and flexed its muscle and showed off a 32nm system. This comes on the same day as Intel announcing that it planning to invest $7 billion in processor fabs for the 32nm processors. The first chips that will be 32nm will be from codename Westmere. Where the tech gets interesting is that the plan on having a mobile chip that integrates a graphics and memory controller in one 45nm chip. There are no dates set in stone for the 32nm CPUs and it won’t be anytime soon as Calpella, the Nahalem mobile version, has just been delayed which was supposed to come out Q3 2009. There were no benchmarks either, today was just a demo. Engadget did a very nice writeup on all of this to help set straight all of the codenames Intel uses as it can get very confusing. There is also a nice video presentation.

Full Article: Engadget