Intel® Microarchitecture

As the foundation for Intel's processor-technology, Intel® microarchitecture employs next-generation, 45nm multi-core technology. Optimized to deliver state-of-the-art features that raise the bar on energy-efficient performance, Intel microarchitecture continues to be the catalyst for innovative new designs.

Nehalem: Next-gen Intel® microarchitecture

Nehalem: Intel® microarchitecture ›

Intel's next-generation microarchitecture (codenamed "Nehalem"), represents the next step in processor energy efficiency, performance, and dynamic scalability.

Intel® QuickPath Technology ›

Unleash the next-generation parallel processing performance of 45nm Intel® microarchitecture with Intel's point-to-point high-speed interconnect system architecture.

Visual Computing Intel® Microarchitecture

Larrabee: A Many-Core x86 Architecture for Visual Computing (PDF 2.10MB) ›

This paper presents the many-core visual computing architecture named Larrabee featuring a new software rendering pipeline, a many-core programming model, and performance analysis for several applications.

Miracle in miniaturization

Discover Intel's smallest chip built with the world's smallest transistors¹

Intel® Atom™ processor

Reinventing microarchitecture

Explore next-generation Intel® 45nm high-k metal gate silicon technology providing breakthrough energy-efficiency without compromise to performance.

Get details on 45nm

Intel® Core™ microarchitecture

First 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture ›

The first member of the 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture family offers new levels of performance and energy efficiency with nearly twice the transistor density and drastically reduced electrical leakage.

Original Intel® Core™ microarchitecture ›

The foundation for new Intel® architecture-based desktop, notebook, and mainstream server multi-core processors, Intel® Core™ microarchitecture is designed from the ground up for high performance and energy-efficiency.

Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4) ›

Unlock performance and energy efficiency on 32- and 64-bit applications with new instruction set innovations from Intel.

Intel® Atom™ microarchitecture

Intel® Atom™ processor ›

Discover Intel's smallest chip, built with the world's smallest transistors—the Intel® Atom™ processor for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Based on hafnium-based 45nm microarchitecture, Intel Atom processors pack 47 million transistors on a single chip measuring less than 25mm.

Next-generation Intel® Itanium® processors

World's first 2-billion transistor microprocessor ›

See how Intel is breaking the performance barrier with the world's first 2-billion transistor microprocessor (codenamed Tukwila).²