Intel fleshes out a few more Penryn deets
By Paul Miller 
posted January 31st 2007 5:49PM
posted January 31st 2007 5:49PM
Just to keep us all guessing, Intel has announced that it will be "launching" 45nm chips across all of its main processor categories in Q1 2008. This would seem to run counter to prior roadmap plans that call for Penryn to start shipping near the end of 2007, but apparently those plans are still on, Intel just won't be busting out the ticker-tape until 2008. Alongside this confusion, Intel has also fleshed out info 'bout its first two Penryn-based products, the quad-core Yorkfield and dual-core Wolfdale desktop processors. Wolfdale packs a 1333MHz front-side bus, with up to 6MB L2 cache, while Yorkfield is essentially a pair of Wolfdales glued together, though the front-side bus is reduced to 1066MHz. The chips also mark the return of Hyper-Threading of some sort, but according to Intel: "The official company policy is that our engineers have left the door open for Hyper-Threading, but we cannot confirm or deny any future plans for the technology," so it sounds like we won't know exactly what Intel is planning to do with that dubious technology it killed off when building its Core and Core 2 products until we get a bit closer to launch time.
that picture isnt really showing how small 45nm is...
i want PENRYN wow, the least they could do is commit to 775, then id be happy :)
The Hyper-Threading portion has been retracted. See Daily Tech link (Read link) for more details.
Are the sockets for the core, core 2, and xeon processors going to remain the same as they are now in LGA771 for xeons and 775 for all else?
I want to buy a mac pro, but im also watching out for future upgrades on the Intel 5000V motherboard.
wow, just wow, with Wolfdale's front-side bus being 1333MHz, it's going to kill all AMD processors.
i sure hope AMD increases their future quad-cores front-side bus speeds to 4000MHz or something to beat Intel.
can anyone tell me what that is a picture of? The only thing i can think of is a giant silicon.....thing.
that wafer holds prob. about 100 cores of a processor, or dies. a machine removes them from that then places it on a circuit board, and u have a processor
yeah s/he's probably holding about half a mil. $ right there
i never understood why they put SQUARE processor dies on a ROUND wafer though, the ones on the edge look like they are cut off
yeah that really only shows a silicon (?) wafer and you really can't see what's on the die. the wafers are round because of how they're grown. a chunk of seed silicon is spun up in a vat of molten silicon until it reaches the diameter they want and is then lifted out to grow it length wise. you could grow an almost pure silicon crystal the size of a person
skmetal7, it is, amongst other things, because the wafer needs to be evenly heated during manufacturing, and being circular aides that.