Intel touts 20x less power-hungry UMPCs, lays out processor roadmap

While we already have a pretty good idea of Intel's near-term processor plans, the company has now decided to give folks a glimpse a bit further into the future, laying out some its processor plans through the year 2010 at its spring analyst meeting this week. Among the more notable boastings by the company is a promised 20x reduction in UMPCs' power consumption by 2009-2010. That'll supposedly be made possible by its new "Moorestown" system on a chip, which is set to replace its still-to-be-released Menlow system. In addition to the lower power consumption, Moorestown also promises to reduce thermals by 9x and cut the actual size by the same amount. As for the rest of its roadmap, Intel is continuing to talk up its 45-nanometer manufacturing process, with the first such chip (code-named Penryn) still on track to ship this year. Don't get too used to those 45nm chips though, as Intel's says it's planning to release its first 32-nanometer chip, a Nehalem-based processor dubbed "Westmere," sometime in 2009.

Read - RegHardware, "Intel web tablet SoC to cut power consumption by 20x"
Read - InformationWeek, "Intel Road Map Stretches From Quad Cores To Mobile Internet"

[theChad @ May 4th 2007 1:35PM]

This is good and all, but what are they doing to make me want a UMPC today? Seems like not much.

[Chuckles McGee @ May 4th 2007 1:41PM]

Now we all know exactly when our stuff is going to be obsolete, instead of just the vague "not-too distant future".

[kay.one @ May 4th 2007 2:25PM]

god bless them!

[Joe Smith @ May 4th 2007 3:11PM]

I'm looking forward to the MacPad with LED backlighting, Multi-Touch, and 40 hour battery life.

[raf @ Jun 10th 2007 5:31AM]

it would be already possible , if only battery producing companies had commercialized technologies they already have. in example titanate electrode lithium-ion batteries which carries 4times as much energy as normal li-ion battery, charges in 10minutes, and works for 20000 charges. but they prefer to sell standard li-ion batteries which usually last for no more than 2 years, pure profit.

[techwarrior @ May 15th 2007 6:23PM]

this will be great !! the more they come out with new stuff then the cheaper the old stuff will get. speed is great but on some of my machines web browsing and email is all that is done so the cheaper the better