Category Archives: AMD

 

05Dec

Intel’s mobile Penryn CPUs arrive in January

Ok so we have seen the first Penryn but it is a quad core desktop version. Daily Tech are reporting the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme dual core processors for Notebooks will land in January with the first appearance at CES 2008 (January 7th).

 

Model

Core Frequency

 TDP L2 Cache Price
X9000 2.8 GHz 44W 6MB $851
T9500 2.6 GHz 35W 6MB $530
T9300 2.5 GHz 35W 6MB $316
T8300 2.4 GHz 35W 3MB $241
T8100 2.1 GHz 35W 3MB $209

 

While the current lineup with be 35W the Montevina platform released in the 2nd half of the year will lower the TDP to 25W.

I have to say that Intel are definatly on a winning streak at the moment, I hope AMD start to improve their releases.

30Oct

Moore’s Law, the limitations of transistors and the 45nm fabrication process basics(ish)

Ok so I am planning on doing a couple of posts about the new Nvidia 8800 GT Graphics Processor, and the new Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650. Two of the important features of these products is the reduction in Fabrication process size. The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 has moved to the 45nm Fabrication process from 65nm and the Nvidia 8800 GT has moved from the 90nm Fabrication Process to 65nm. So the reason for this post is what the hell is the Fabrication Process and why is it good for our CPUs/GPUs?

The simple answer is that the smaller the fabrication processes then the more transistors you can fit on each chip, and the more transistors you have the faster the technology you are producing can run. The other advantage is that shrinking a 65-nanometre design to 45-nanometres would result in a die that is less than half the size allowing a manufacturer to reduce the power consumption and heat dissipation of the chip

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