Intel unveils its tech treasures 
Published: 21 Sep 2007 11:24 BST
The company's next-generation, 45nm (nanometre) microarchitecture, Nehalem, working. Sixteen threads — eight cores, two threads a core — are running at animating a ridiculously shiny multicoloured raytracing graphics benchmark. The silicon was finished three weeks ago, and the relief and pride was clear.











