Penryn for Notebooks, 2007-07-20 - Your reactions

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After letting information leaks about frequencies and prices of future Xeon Penryn, information spread on the web about the future Penryn-based CPU which will power our notebook in a near future. Based on 45nnm engraving and Core architecture those Santa Rosa-compatible processors will use 800MHz FSB, while clock speed should not really increase and top at 2.6GHz, cache memory/core will increase to 3MB. Those CPUs will also embark some SSE optimizations to boost performance especially for multimedia applications; but more importantly it should be less power-consuming giving longer battery life cycles.

Next evolution of Intel mobile platform will come mid-2008, entitled Montevina, it will replace Santa Rosa for high-end notebooks. Montevian will bring a lot of new features as well as support for many technology enhancements. It will be based on 45nm Penryn CPUs featuring 1066MHz FSB. Montevian chipsets will support both DDR2/DDR3 memory as well as DisplayPort and HDMI/HDCP. On the wireless side, a new module codenamed Shirley Peak should bring improvements of 802.11n capabilities (not used so far by Apple), while a module named Echo Peak will bring support WiFi/WiMAX. Last but not least, Montevian will sports the new Cantiga GM/PM northbridge chipsets, and the ICH9M southbridge, letting us expecting for a faster integrated shared memory graphic chipset too.

In the second half of 2008, Intel will offer Low voltage (LV) and ultra-low voltage (ULV) version of Penryn processors, to give integrators processing solutions for smaller devices. In addition, LV and ULV Penryn CPUs will have their die shrink from the 35mm squared for current Merom LV/ULV CPUs to 22mm squared