The Blackford Northbridge Chipset for the Intel 5000

  • Authors:
  • Sivakumar Radhakrishnan;Sundaram Chinthamani;Kai Cheng

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel;Intel;Intel

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The Intel 5000 is a shared-memory, symmetric dual-processor system based on the energy-efficient, high-performance Intel Core 2 dual- and quad-core processors. A key component is the northbridge, which interconnects processor, memory, and I/O interfaces. The Blackford northbridge chipset provides multicore processor support and platform-level features and technologies. Its critical microarchitectural improvements offer significant performance advantages.