Intel's Clarksfield to begin production in second half of 2009

Penryn-based Montevina just hit the streets a few months ago, but hardware geeks are fickle fellows, so Intel said today that Clarksfield, its Nehalem-based mobile CPU, will go into production in the second half of next year; sadly, there was no word on when the chips will actually be available to consumers in the Calpella platform, which (rumor has it) will have built-in WiMAX. Clarksfield will include an onboard memory controller and a bunch of other new techs like its desktop brethren, so the promise of performance gains comparable to what we've seen in the desktop benchmarks is there -- we'll just have to wait at least a year to enjoy them, so get comfy.

[Corey @ Oct 21st 2008 1:06AM]

Delicious.

[Samboini @ Oct 21st 2008 1:17AM]

No, you don't eat them. They go inside laptops, not your stomach, silly.

[Mark @ Oct 21st 2008 2:31AM]

You are exactly the reason why toxins in tech are a problem.

[coolbee8 @ Oct 21st 2008 10:05AM]

...Superman must be pissed, Intel cant just take over somebody's field and yield chips there.

[erikislame @ Oct 21st 2008 1:27AM]

I love how Ross Rubin refuses to have open comments on his milquetoast articles. Now with unfixed typos!

[kyle allen @ Oct 21st 2008 1:34AM]

why does intel have these code names? why cant they just call them all pentiums and give us the clock speed like they alwais did?

[kyle allen @ Oct 21st 2008 1:35AM]

... by alwais i mean from the mid 90s up untill recently

[Corey @ Oct 21st 2008 1:54AM]

Because clocks speeds haven't increased much. However, the number of cores has changed, as well as a lot of other important factors that effect speed other than CPU frequency.

[waiownsyou @ Oct 21st 2008 2:00AM]

Enjoy your educational lesson for today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth

So basically, it's not how fast something's going, it's how far.

[kyle allen @ Oct 21st 2008 2:05AM]

i stand corrected/ beg your forgiveness.

[ethana2 @ Oct 21st 2008 1:52AM]

Glad to see chip technology constantly improving..

[Chin-Poh @ Oct 21st 2008 1:59AM]

So, Centrino 2/Montevina will be around for about a full year then? I'm thinking of buying a Centrino 2 notebook soon and wouldn't want it to be TOO outdated too soon.

[Knives_Out @ Oct 21st 2008 2:06AM]

ugh. come out sooner!

[Podaman @ Oct 21st 2008 2:25AM]

I could see Arnold saying that in your avatar, but not in the same context.

[Knives_Out @ Oct 21st 2008 3:31AM]

come again?

[icepop4who @ Oct 21st 2008 2:09AM]

maybe it can divide by zero

[derX @ Oct 21st 2008 2:26AM]

Certain acts are reserved only for Chuck Norris.

[UnixSystemsEngineer @ Oct 21st 2008 3:04AM]

Montevina. As in the brutal hill I had to run up in college as a rower.

[Samboini @ Oct 21st 2008 3:30PM]

Rowers running? Whatever next, swimmers boxing? Don't worry, I was a rower myself.

[Ian @ Oct 21st 2008 3:38AM]

Fantastic. MS Office was starting to get a bit slow on today's tech.

[Nick @ Oct 21st 2008 3:55AM]

Yummy wimax

[ace1000_x @ Oct 21st 2008 4:20AM]

Clarksfield puts the image of a giant field of black dress shoes in my head...

I haven't bought shoes from Clarks for many years...

[dervheid @ Oct 21st 2008 5:52AM]

"Take the last train to Clarkesville, and I'll meet..."
Sorry,
Just Monkeeing around.

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 21st 2008 9:51AM]

Take the last train there and I'll meet you at the station, you ca...
(whispers)
It isn't?
(whispers)

Never mind.

[Sharone @ Oct 22nd 2008 1:00AM]

I want Nehalem in the notebook, I have read it is a very fast processor. I am putting off purchase of my next notebook till this Calpella platform is available.

With Calpella and Adobe Photoshop CS4 I'll be able to post-process images in much better way. Hurry up Intel!