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ABOUT THIS MANUAL

The Intel

Xeon

processor 5200, 5400, 7400 series, Intel

Core™2 Quad processor Q9000 series, and Intel

Core™2 Extreme processor QX9000, X9000 series, Intel

Core™2 processor E8000 series are based on Enhanced

Intel

Core™ microarchitecture.

The Intel

Atom™ processors 200, 300, D400, D500, D2000, N200, N400, N2000, E2000, Z500, Z600, Z2000,

C1000 series are based on the Intel

Atom™ microarchitecture and supports Intel 64 architecture.

The Intel

Core™ i7 processor and Intel

Xeon

processor 3400, 5500, 7500 series are based on 45 nm Intel

microarchitecture code name Nehalem. Intel

microarchitecture code name Westmere is a 32 nm version of Intel

microarchitecture code name Nehalem. Intel

Xeon

processor 5600 series, Intel Xeon processor E7 and various

Intel Core i7, i5, i3 processors are based on Intel

microarchitecture code name Westmere. These processors

support Intel 64 architecture.
The Intel

Xeon

processor E5 family, Intel

Xeon

processor E3-1200 family, Intel

Xeon

processor E7-

8800/4800/2800 product families, Intel

Core

i7-3930K processor, and 2nd generation Intel

Core™ i7-2xxx,

Intel

Core™ i5-2xxx, Intel

Core™ i3-2xxx processor series are based on the Intel

microarchitecture code

name Sandy Bridge and support Intel 64 architecture.
The Intel

Xeon

processor E7-8800/4800/2800 v2 product families, Intel

Xeon

processor E3-1200 v2 product

family and the 3rd generation Intel

Core™ processors are based on the Intel

microarchitecture code name Ivy

Bridge and support Intel 64 architecture.
The Intel

Xeon

processor E5-4600/2600/1600 v2 product families, Intel

Xeon

processor E5-2400/1400 v2

product families and Intel

Core™ i7-49xx Processor Extreme Edition are based on the Intel

microarchitecture

code name Ivy Bridge-E and support Intel 64 architecture.
The Intel

Xeon

processor E3-1200 v3 product family and 4th Generation Intel

Core™ processors are based on

the Intel

microarchitecture code name Haswell and support Intel 64 architecture.

The Intel

Core™ M processor family, 5th generation Intel

Core™ processors, Intel

Xeon

processor D-1500

product family and the Intel

Xeon

processor E5 v4 family are based on the Intel

microarchitecture code name

Broadwell and support Intel 64 architecture.
The Intel

Xeon

processor E3-1500m v5 product family and 6th generation Intel

Core™ processors are based

on the Intel

microarchitecture code name Skylake and support Intel 64 architecture.

The Intel

Xeon

processor E5-2600/1600 v3 product families and the Intel

Core™ i7-59xx Processor Extreme

Edition are based on the Intel

microarchitecture code name Haswell-E and support Intel 64 architecture.

The Intel

Atom™ processor Z8000 series is based on the Intel microarchitecture code name Airmont.

The Intel

Atom™ processor Z3400 series and the Intel

Atom™ processor Z3500 series are based on the Intel

microarchitecture code name Silvermont.
P6 family, Pentium

M, Intel

Core™ Solo, Intel

Core™ Duo processors, dual-core Intel

Xeon

processor LV,

and early generations of Pentium 4 and Intel Xeon processors support IA-32 architecture. The Intel

Atom™

processor Z5xx series support IA-32 architecture.
The Intel

Xeon

processor 3000, 3200, 5000, 5100, 5200, 5300, 5400, 7100, 7200, 7300, 7400 series, Intel

Core™2 Duo, Intel

Core™2 Extreme processors, Intel Core 2 Quad processors, Pentium

D processors, Pentium

Dual-Core processor, newer generations of Pentium 4 and Intel Xeon processor family support Intel

64 architec-

ture.
IA-32 architecture is the instruction set architecture and programming environment for Intel's 32-bit microproces-
sors. Intel

64 architecture is the instruction set architecture and programming environment which is the superset

of Intel’s 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. It is compatible with the IA-32 architecture.

1.2

OVERVIEW OF VOLUME 1: BASIC ARCHITECTURE

A description of this manual’s content follows:
Chapter 1 — About This Manual. Gives an overview of all five volumes of the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
Software Developer’s Manual. It also describes the notational conventions in these manuals and lists related Intel
manuals and documentation of interest to programmers and hardware designers.