Techpowerup har fanget en tysk nyhed fra heise.de. Den omhandler Intels kommende CPU som skal overtage efter Conroe og Kentsfield.
Penryn bliver et 3,0ghz+ monster, med 6/12mb cache, SSE4 instruktionssæt og TDP på 65/105w. Endvidere kan nævnes 45nm og forbedret transistorer.
Til dem som ikke kan tysk, så er teksten fra techpowerup citeret længere nede.
Penryn is Intels next generation of the Core 2 Duo with 'Conroe'-core. Based on a 45nm process and an improved High-k dielectric together with metal gates the Penryn features the SSE4 instruction set (aka Nehalem New Instructions, NNI), and a 6MB/12MB L2-cache (Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Quad). Power consumption will roughly be the same, 65W TDP for the Duo and 105W for the Quad. The working frequencies will be higher than 3GHz for the top models resulting in around 20% more performance when playing games. Video-trancoding that utilizes the new SSE4 instructions will be around 40% faster Intel says.
The mobile Penryn features an additional 'deep power down'-state where both caches will be deactivated, the core-frequency and -voltage are lowered by a significant amount. Furthermore the chip is able to change both core's frequencies and voltages indepentently from one another. Let's say you are using a single threaded application for a while the second core won't have much to do it will power itself down whereas the other core could power it up to improve the performance. Link: Update: http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjQ5MDgsLCxobmV3cywsLDE=
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87545
Lidt om Nehalem: http://www.betanews.com/article/Intel_Officially_Confirms_Integrated_Memory_Controller_for_45nm_Nehalem/1175123788