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Intel Sheds Light on "Penryn" Enhancements
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-08-06 14:08:28 445
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There's more to Intel's next-generation processor family than the 45nm process node
By Anh Huynh @ DailyTech
Intel plans to unleash its Penryn family processors next quarter, shortly after AMD releases Barcelona. Penryn is the umbrella for all 45nm Core 2 micro architecture products, including quad-core Xeon Harpertown, quad-core Core 2 Yorkfield and dual-core Xeon, Core 2 Wolfdale processors.
On the surface, Penryn looks like die shrink of last year’s Conroe micro architecture, but Intel sought additional tweaks to the micro architecture to achieve greater performance at the same clock speeds as Conroe processors.
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