Gulftown
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Gulftown[1] or Westmere-E[2] is the codename of an up to six-core hyperthreaded Intel processor able to run up to 12 threads in parallel. It is based on Westmere microarchitecture, the 32 nm shrink of Nehalem.[3] Originally rumored to be called the Intel Core i9, it is sold as an Intel Core i7.[4] The first release was the Core i7 980X in the first quarter of 2010,[5][6][7] along with its server counterpart, the Xeon 3600 and the dual-socket Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) series using identical chips.
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Launched | 1H 2010 |
Designed by | Intel |
CPUID code | 0206Cx |
Product code | 80613, 80614 |
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Max. CPU clock rate | 3.2 GHz to 3.46 GHz |
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L2 cache | 6 × 256 KB |
L3 cache | 12 MB |
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Application | UP/DP Server, Workstation, Gaming |
Technology node | 32 nm |
Microarchitecture | Westmere |
Instruction set | x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES-NI |
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Successor | Sandy Bridge-E |
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