Westmere (microarchitecture)

Westmere (formerly Nehalem-C) is a CPUmicroarchitecture developed by Intel. It is a scaled-down version of its predecessor, Nehalem, and shares the same CPU sockets with it. Some Westmere models have integrated graphics processors, branded as Intel HD Graphics, that support DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.1 API.

The first Westmere-based processors were released on January 7, 2010. They were labeled under Intel's Core, Pentium, Celeron, and Xeon brandings.