45nm Engraving Process: First Samples from Intel

Intel announced to have produced at a factory in Oregon the first samples of a Core 2 Duo-like CPU.
As engraving process shrinks, such CPU will drain less power while supporting higher clock speed. First CPUs to benefit from this process should be next generation Intel mobile CPUs. They will integrate the SSE4 instruction set , quite similar to the past G4/G5 Altivec.