Thursday, March 29, 2007
PC World: Intel Promises Fast Penryn Chips in 2007
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 12:00 PM
"Intel Corp. will begin producing its next-generation "Penryn" processors by the end of 2007, using greater power efficiency to push improved Core 2 and Xeon chips to speeds over 3GHz, the company said Wednesday...In other improvements, Intel will use 50 percent more on-chip memory in Penryn chips than Core 2 Duo, allowing them to hold more data on the chip instead of spending time and energy retrieving it from the PC's main memory bank. Dual-core Penryn chips will have 6M bytes of L2 cache while quad-core versions have 12M bytes. Intel said it also will speed Penryn front side bus speeds to 1600MHz, instead of the 1066MHz or 1333MHz options now available, granting up to a 45 percent improvement for high-performance computing applications like computational fluid dynamics."
Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my keyboard - Intel is unleashing a stunning wave of improved CPUs in 2007 and beyond, and the changes are much more than simple bumps in clock speed. Every time I work with RAW images or transcode video, I wish for a faster CPU. Bring it on!
Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my keyboard - Intel is unleashing a stunning wave of improved CPUs in 2007 and beyond, and the changes are much more than simple bumps in clock speed. Every time I work with RAW images or transcode video, I wish for a faster CPU. Bring it on!
