We learned that Nehalem is the most significant and yet most dangerous marchitecture move that Intel has made in the last five years.

It surely is a holy grail of AMD’s ideas wrapped around an Intel product and having the integrated memory controller and L3 cache in a single processor leaves a lot of room for errors.

We don’t say that Nehalem will have problems or that it will be late, but we can say that Intel is risking like never before and most of the stuff it uses has been seen in AMD’s CPUs. The only big advantage Nehalem has over Denab is its Hypertheading support, but this is something to be seen to be believed.

Nehalem will launch as a single $1,100 CPU in Q4 2008 and it will find its place in the server market, but it will take until middle 2009 to take the significant market share out of the Penryn core quad / duo generation. Intel tends to make our lives easier, as it tends to repeat the same patterns all over again.