Intel® microarchitecture codename Nehalem offers the latest in processor innovation, including:

• Dynamic scalability, managed cores, threads, cache, interfaces, and power for energy-efficient performance on-demand.
• Design and performance scalability to address servers, workstations, notebooks, and desktop segments with support for two to eight or more cores and up to sixteen or more threads with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology), and scalable cache sizes, system interconnects, and integrated memory controllers.
• Intelligent performance on-demand with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology taking advantage of the processor's power and thermal headroom. This enables increased performance of both multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads.
• Increased performance on highly-threaded applications with Intel® HT Technology, bringing high-performance applications into mainstream computing with 1-16+ threads optimized for this new multi-core processor architecture.
• Scalable shared memory for specific servers and workstations features memory distributed to each processor with integrated memory controllers and Intel QuickPath Technology high-speed point-to-point interconnects to unleash the performance of configurations of multiple multi-core processors based on Intel® microarchitecture codename Nehalem.
• Multi-level shared cache improves performance and efficiency by reducing latency to frequently used data.