- Intel's latest-generation microarchitecture represents the next step in unprecedented processor performance and dynamic scalability. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of hafnium-based Intel® 32nm hi-k metal gate silicon technology, Intel® Microarchitecture (Westmere) unleashes parallel processing performance enabled by Intel® QuickPath technology providing an integrated memory controller and high-speed interconnect per independent processing core. - Dynamic scalability, managed cores, threads, cache, interfaces, and power for energy-efficient performance on demand. - Design and performance scalability for servers, workstations, notebooks and desktops with support for 4-12 cores and up to 24+ threads with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology), and scalable cache sizes, system interconnects, and integrated memory controllers. - Intel® Turbo Boost Technology delivers additional performance automatically when needed by taking advantage of the processor's power and thermal headroom. This enables increased performance of both multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads.