Westmere

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Westmere is Intel's 32 nm microarchitecture, a die-shrink of Nehalem that introduced several new features and performance improvements to the Core processor lineup.

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Westmere canonical 1
Westmere-EP 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf microarchitecture
architectureFamily Intel Core
cacheHierarchy L1, L2, shared L3 cache
codenameVariant Arrandale
linked to: Silvermont

Clarkdale
Gulftown
Westmere-EP
linked to: Westmere

Westmere-EX
coreCountRange 2 to 6 cores
developer Intel
linked to: Intel Corporation
dieShrinkOf Nehalem
improvementOver higher clock speeds than Nehalem at same power
lower power consumption than Nehalem
smaller die size than Nehalem
instructionSetArchitecture x86-64
introducesFeature AES New Instructions
L3CacheRange up to 12 MB (Gulftown/Westmere-EP)
launchYear 2010
marketedAs 32 nm die-shrink of Nehalem
memoryTypeSupport DDR3
microarchitectureGeneration Intel Core first generation shrink
notableModel Core i3-5xx series
linked to: Intel Core i3

Core i5-6xx series
linked to: Intel Core i5

Core i7-980X
linked to: Intel Westmere
pipelineType out-of-order superscalar
predecessorOf Sandy Bridge
linked to: Intel Sandy Bridge
processNode 32 nm
segment desktop processors
mobile processors
server processors
socketSupport LGA 1155 (some derivatives via compatibility families)
LGA 1156
LGA 1366
successorTo Nehalem
supports AES-NI
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology
Hyper-Threading
Intel 64
Intel Trusted Execution Technology
SSE4.2
TXT
Turbo Boost
VT-d
VT-x
linked to: Intel VT-x

integrated memory controller
technology integrated graphics on-package (in Clarkdale/Arrandale)
useCase consumer PCs
servers
workstations

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Westmere codenameVariant Westmere-EP
linked to: Westmere