Intel® GPU/CPU combo

Bloomfield will apparently feature a 1366 pin socket (ouch) and feature "QuickPath" - Intel's answer to AMD's "HyperTransport" along with up to three channels of DDR3 memory. The new core apparently will have 8MB of L2 and use QuickPath to connect to a "Tylersburg" northbridge that will provide PCIe 2.0 lanes.Strangely enough, less than six months later there will apparently be a "Lynnfield" going to a 1160 pin socket with four cores and hyperthreading, 8MB of L2, dual DDR3 channels, using PCIe as a chip to chip bus. Frankly, this sounds weird to me. Why on earth would Intel go to a 1366 pin chip, to go to a 1160 pin chip less than six months later? The only way that this would make sense is if one of the chips was destined for the low end integrated market.Let's peek into our crystal ball... to reduce costs, you have to simplify designs. What if Lynnfield integerated the GPU? With PCIe integrated onto the chip, it is not farfetched to consider that Intel may also consider integrating a couple of SATA channels and some USB2.0 channels... then you could have a nice little quad core "SOC" (System on a Chip) allowing very low part count integrated low end designs. Such an SOC really would only be suitable for low end machines as the GPU would have to share memory bandwidth with the four core / eight thread CPU portion, so even a hypothetical dual channel 2000MHz DDR3 system with close to 32GB/sec bandwidth would be hard put to exceed the performance of an 8600GT - and it would starve the processor for memory bandwidth at that. To make matters even more confusing, the referenced roadmap also shows a mainstream "Clarksfield" part using a 989 pin rPGA socket. UGH. Thatz it!

The main circuit board of a microcomputer.

The main circuit board of a microcomputer. The motherboard contains the connectors for attaching additional boards. Typically, the motherboard contains the CPU, BIOS, memory, mass storage interfaces, serial and parallel ports, expansion slots, and all the controllers required to control standard peripheral devices, such as the display screen, keyboard, and disk drive; sometimes you will find that the motherboard has other integrated devices such as an audio card and video card. The motherboard is the largest circuit board in most computers and is held on by several screws.

Intel® Processors

The CPU is the brain of any PC. The CPU works by taking deta out of memory , processing it and placing it back into memory it is through memory that the other devices that make up the PC interact with the CPU it may be helpful if you think of the CPU as an agents pending its time going from the one device to another , multitasking its help is needed.if the processing job the CPU is asking to do is lengthy , it may not be available to the other devices connected to the PC until that job is completed . this process explains why sometime you can type a command and it seems to take a while for the computer to respond. the CPU was processing another instruction , and took a moment for it to get to the keyboard's memory location , retrieve your key stroke, determine what keystroke meant , and execute that instruction
The processor's performance is measured in terms of the amount of data it can process at one time and the speed at which it can process that data . than data is measured in bits processing speed in megahertz ( MHz ).