I’m here at the Toshiba seminar entitled ‘Take a closer look’. When I return I will be giving you lucky people an insight into the latest technical goodies that they have on offer. I have to admit that there are some delightful little gems on offer and have some photos to prove it. It’s a hard life being jetted to Paris, put up in a swanky hotel and let loose with some toys. It’s a sacrifice I was prepared to take.
Category Archives: Intel
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.
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 lauches in November. First Penryn CPU built on 45nm Fabrication Process
In the next few days (12th November) Intel will be releasing its Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU, its new high end processor. This is the first Intel chip based built on the 45nm fabrication process, and it is also the first chip based on the Penryn core,, the successor of the Merom core.
The Core 2 Extreme QX9650 is clocked at 3GHz with 1333MHz front side bus and 6MB of L2 Cache per core die making 12MB in total. UK price will be around £650 (inc. VAT) or in the US $999 (ex. Tax).
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
