Gulftown
Gulftown or Westmere-E 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. Originally rumored to be called the Intel Core i9, it is sold as an Intel Core i7. The first release was the Core i7 980X in the first quarter of 2010, along with its server counterpart, the Xeon 3600 and the dual-socket Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) series using identical chips.
| General information | |
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| Launched | 1H 2010 |
| Designed by | Intel |
| CPUID code | 0206Cx |
| Product code | 80613, 80614 |
| Performance | |
| Max. CPU clock rate | 3.2 GHz to 3.46 GHz |
| Cache | |
| L2 cache | 6 × 256 KB |
| L3 cache | 12 MB |
| Architecture and classification | |
| 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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| History | |
| Successor(s) | Sandy Bridge-E |
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