At Tuesday's Intel
Developers' Forum, keynote speaker and CTO Justin Rattner released some new details regarding the company's next
generation 65-nanometer processor micro-architecture, which will start appearing in PCs next year, introducing the term
"Intel Core Microarchitecture" for upcoming platforms code-named Conroe (desktop), Merom (mobile), and
Woodcrest (server). We first saw examples of Conroe in action when Rattner briefly demoed the
quad-core Clovertown processor
about a month ago, and the new architecture promises to allow speeds 40%
greater than Pentium D 950s can
achieve, which also consuming 40%
less power. Woodcrest-based chips are said to be 80% faster than today's
2.8GHz dual-core Paxville chips, and like Conroe, sipping 35% less juice than the current standard bearer. Finally,
Merom will improve upon the mobile Core Duo 2600 by 20% while maintaining the same level of power consumption. Rattner
also mentioned a new metric that Intel is introducing called Efficiency Per Instruction, or EPI, that will rather
unsurprisingly show his company's offerings to be "better than any other processor, based on data sheets published
today."
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Cybert @ Mar 8th 2006 5:42AM
Better all be 64-bit. I wonder if the memron will still be 32? Core is a step backwards in this way.
rob @ Mar 8th 2006 6:32AM
Dont worry. They are ALL 64bit - even merom.
Nick @ Mar 8th 2006 9:03AM
the question is how will AMD answer back. I would love to see AMD kick out something new
boe @ Mar 8th 2006 10:17AM
I wouldn't be surprised to see this out by September. With their incredible loss of market share, they are going to be under a LOT of pressure to recaptures something by the 3rd quarter.
Rick @ Mar 8th 2006 10:44AM
What I want to know: are any of these are pin compatible with my iMac Core Duo? Future up grade please!
opher @ Mar 8th 2006 10:53AM
"better than any other processor, based on data sheets published today."...TODAY is the key word in that sentence.
I bet AMD will STILL kick Intel's butt when these chips come out
Benson Leung @ Mar 8th 2006 11:31AM
@6
This would seem to argue otherwise:
http://anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2713
and this:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4843
AMD has a few things on the table for later this year (faster DDR2 memory ) but the memory change alone will not make up for the performance difference since AMD is already doing pretty well with memory bandwidth. AMD is going to be pushing 90nm chips for the rest of the year while Intel has moved to 65nm.
AMD will have new chips out for 2H06, but they won't have nearly the same features that Conroe brings to the table : 4 issue core, 4 MB L2 cache, fast 1 cycle SSE, etc.
Veacross @ Mar 8th 2006 12:50PM
Knowing that way it is Intel is just announcing this while AMD is already finishing up something comperable to this. Expect something in the next mo ^.~.
acidreflux @ Mar 8th 2006 10:45PM
Conroe is impressive, fo' sure. However, AMD has 6 months to go, on top of the time since x2. Lets not act like Intel has won any crown yet, as exemplified in the last decade (**cough**...Anandtech). Please.
acidreflux @ Mar 8th 2006 10:53PM
the real question is: true 64 bit, or some 64 bit extensions?