Intel to release faster Penryn chips in 2007
Ahead of new mobile Core 2 Duos expected in May, Intel on Wednesday announced that it will begin producing its next-generation Penryn family of processors in the second half of this year and outlined its new Nehalem chip architecture expected in 2008. The six new “Penryn” processors, including both dual- and quad-core variations, will benefit from enhancements to the Intel Core microarchitecture and also Intel’s new 45nm Hi-k process technology, which the company claims results in higher performance and more energy-efficient processors. Penryn’s new microarchitecture enhancements will bring extended battery life for mobile devices, enhanced performance for single-threaded applications, new SIMD extensions for better performance, enhanced virtualization, more instruction executions per clock cycle, larger on-chip caches, and higher processor speeds of more than 3GHz, the Santa Clara-company claimed.
Looking beyond Penryn, Intel said it will deliver its Nehalem architecture in 2008 as another step in Intel’s “tick-tock” product strategy and cadence to deliver a new process technology with either an enhanced microarchitecture or entirely new microarchitecture every year. The next-generation Nehalem microarchitecture will offer dynamically managed cores, threads, cache, interfaces and power as well as simultaneous multi-threading, which Intel said is similar to its Hyper-threading technology. Nehalem will also deliver new Intel SSE4 and ATA instruction set architecture additions and superior multi-level shared caching. It will also feature a leap in processing with support for more than 16 threads and up to 8 cores as well as an integrated memory controllers and a high-performance integrated graphics engine for client. This sounds like a good news for all laptop users, where battery life plays a crucial role…
Source: CBC, Xinhua
Comments(17)
Go the intel! Looks like Ill hold off my laptop purchase for a bit then.
Still better than AMD, yes they cost more but performance from the processor counts!
*Sits back and waits for the flames*
So another new slot? >_>
I just got a E6600!
Well here is hoping that they stay with waking them in 775 MOBO’s. isn’t technology just mind boggling. Blows me away thinking about technology in the future!!!
Intels Nephalem is out in 2008/9. This will use a new socket, will have an integrated memory controller, it won’t have a Front side bus anymore but a serial point to point interconnect, it will have a hypertransport type of system. and Simultaneous Multi-Threading. Intel are clearly not resting on their laurels this time.
Prediction for this year : AMD win back performance crown with Barcelona in the fall, then Intel steal it back at the end of the year with Penryn.
Pls add LOST 14
emm, tell me where is this technology coming from?
intel got weird names to their new advance-jusy-announced-cpu, so i found it intrigue.
AMD is really slow on there releases, it costing them. Assbag can you not find the caps button?
Why the hell are they releasing a new chip and architecture EVERY SINGLE YEAR?!?!
The market is flooded enough as it is…. why not just jump two or three of those “releases”, and knock out the best of the best and give us all a few years to get the cash to buy it?
It was bad enough when it took 2 years before all new shit came out…
@Deaddude:
Would you rather have it they stopped innovating? Nobody is forcing you to buy a new cpu every year right?!
actually, I wish this “innovation” B.S. was just released in one lump drop.
I saw a few YEARS ago Intel had a 30Gigahertz CO-PROCESSOR.
Why the hell are they dragging their feet in releasing that type of tech??
Because they make more money creating the tiny steps in between and releasing those first.
What I say is… make these little steps be larger leaps… charge more cash… give the market a chance to hit the new plateau….
It was bad enough like 3 months after Core DUO premiered there was the Core DUO 2… to give ya an idea where I’m comming from.
Why not share some innovation with their mobile CPU market? 624mhz has been a “barrier” on PDAs for YEARS. And the tech spec for the xScale CPUs states a theoretical max of over 1,130MHZ! Where is the faster CPU????
sorry… I’m a bit of an uber geek on multiple fronts…
We need faster hard drives and memory.
I agree with deaddude…while new technology is awesome i think they throw things out a little too fast…maybe they should wait till theyve gotten it perfect and release a new line every two years or something….look at vista…to MS 5 years and they still didnt get it right…now theyre gunna make a new OS.
Do you really want to know why they keep releasing new shit and continually change the socket formats?
It is NOT “innovation”.
If you believe that, you are the world’s BIGGEST gulliable retard! (A perfect speciman for Marketing Depts to abuse again and again.)…Fucking WAKE UP!
Its called “planned obsolescence”.
The intention is to keep getting you ALL to buy newer and newer hardware. Even when you don’t need it.
Their Marketing teams will make you feel you must “keep up with the times”. So they release more and more new shit.
Microsoft also helps out by delibrately adding features and implementing software such that you need to upgrade your hardware to get the “full experience”. This is especially true with DirectX. They keep upping it so that you NEED to buy new hardware. Think about it. The software market drives the hardware.
This also has an effect on the skill of the programmers. They are molded into thinking that ever increasing computing power will compensate for inefficient coding. This is WRONG. Its amazing why software starts to get bloated after a while. What’s sad, is that the typical computer user just accepts it. They accept the crap that’s given to them without a thought.
Do any of you realise that you can build an entire OS with full “point and click” GUI that can fit into the size of a floppy and boot in less than a few seconds? No. Big software corporations don’t tell you about that, because they want you to keep investing into their CRAP. Their crap has ever increasing system requirements. Which means you need to spend money!
And what about AGP and PCI-Express? Marketing and hardware companies try to make people think AGP is dead. And yet, both Nvidia and ATI will still be producing DirectX 10 cards in AGP form! Simply because there is still a strong market for it! (People aren’t totally stupid)
It isn’t just computers. Its technology in general. Say with mobile phones, they keep on adding more shit you don’t need. For each new generation, you see they keep changing the power adapter connector delibrately. So you are “encouraged” to buy newer phones.
So what about the environment? What happens to the “obsolete” gear? Doesn’t it end up in landfills? WHO CARES! Because there is a LOT of money to be made from gulliable people! FUCK the environment! Let’s make MONEY!
There’s a BIG difference between “innovation” and “planned obsolescence”. Don’t confuse them.
tumw, great speech brother. we need more people like you.
ithink that lazyness has a big part in those issu’s you mention.
take care.
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tells you all you need to know about intel as a company.
@tumw tldr….
i believe they don’t release a 30ghz proc
because nothing on the market could USE it,
things would have to be totally revamped,
memory would have to keep up, and what do
you rls after you drop the 30g bomb? Gimme
that proc and I’m not buying another one
for….. a long time.