When one or more of the cores on a Nehalem chip are powered down, the processor can divert extra power to the cores that are in use by increasing their clockspeed and voltage.

If you're a bit strapped for time however, or if you just don't want to wade through all the other great content we have on the site, then this is a handy breakdown of all the latest tech news from the Fall 2008 Intel Developer Forum.

What Metaram promises is quite simple, it emulates higher density DRAMs with lower density parts, meaning cheaper DIMMs. It also allows you to make lower rank DIMMs with more DRAMs than you should be able to, allowing for more DIMMs per channel.

When it comes to performance Bradd Berdelman from Falcon Northwest brought a cpuple Fragboxes to do a gaming demo showing how the Intel SATA SSD's will improve gaming perfomance in the game Crysis. He flipped the numbers on his PowerPoint presentation, but a single SATA SSD had 32.65 frames per second (FPS) versus the 16.76 FPS found on an identical system with a pair of Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drives in RAID0.

If you want to see the Live Blogs from yesterday including Craig Barrett's opening keynote, Pat Gelsinger's technical keynote, Intel's SSD announcement and a Nehalem technical overview, just head over the next page where I have stored them. Thanks for reading!

Yesterday may only have been Day 1 of Intel's Fall 2008 IDF conference, but it was certainly the busiest for us at Techgage. Among the day's furiously-paced activities, we've been audience to several keynote speeches – many of them condensed into an afternoon marathon that featured Pat Gelsinger and Dadi Perlmutter.

When invited on stage by Gelsinger, Rajesh Kumar, Intel fellow and director for circuit and low-power technologies, explained that the new power-management capability included "innovative sensors" and a power-control unit that has a micro-controller that "only works on power".