Intel readying slew of 45nm Penryn mobile CPUs?

Hot on the heels of Intel's mobile Core 2 Extreme X7900 comes word that the chip maker has eleven 45-nanometer CPUs in the backroom just waiting to take the laptop scene by storm. DigiTimes has it that Intel will indeed launch the five Penryns we heard about recently "in the first quarter of 2008," and also notes that Q2 holds six more chips destined for the Montevina platform. More specifically, "sources at motherboard makers" suggested that the Q2-bound processors will consume between 25 and 35-watts of energy, sport a 1,066MHz front-side-bus, boast between 3MB and 6MB of L2 cache, and feature clock speeds ranging from 2.13GHz to 3.06GHz. As expected, no model numbers have been assigned just yet, and considering that Intel "declined the opportunity to respond to this report," we suppose you should tuck this all away in the rumor folder for the time being.

[Via TGDaily]

[narry @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:21PM]

thats just super

[Chuckles McGee @ Aug 23rd 2007 12:52AM]

Every day we hear of a major processor getting updated is like the first day of spring.

[Kevin @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:26PM]

Yes. I'll take one of those in my Macbook Pro, please. Announcement at Macworld in January? Great. I'll be at www.apple.com/store waiting.

[roberto @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:29PM]

me too :P

[John @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:35PM]

Two years ago it was 90nm, now it's 45nm, in 2 years it'll be 27nm and in 12 years it'll be 1nm.

[chris @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:47PM]

I think we'll be flipping qbits with quantum processors in 12 years.