Intel have an ultra low leakage 65nm process, 1/1000th of the leakage
of the 'regular' process, at the cost of around 40% of the cycle time
for the transistors.
If Conroe hits 2.8Ghz, that means ULV use-practically-no-power-at-all
Meroms at ~2Ghz, and that should be scary fast, since it's 4-issue
and they don't appear to have made any stupid design choices...
Of course, what I really want, is a Woodcrest made on that process,
muhahaha
Either way, I, for one, look forward to the June/July Powerbook
updates :p
On 2 Dec 2005, at 16:28:560, Hayes Elkins wrote:
"Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest will deliver 5, 65 and 80 watts
respectively for the notebook, the desktop and the server chips."
Good to hear. 5w must be the super-duper-battery-saving-slowest-mhz
mode on a Merom based notebook. No hyperthreading either, just a
dual core - fine by me.
I assume there are quite a few former intel employees, be they
engineers or execs, who pushed the P4 bandwagon.
-_-_
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