First Look At Intel Tejas & Socket 775

Anonymous Indian writes "The snoops at Anandtech have unearthed some details and photos of Intel's rumored Tejas 90nm CPU which draws 150 watts of power, a 50% jump compared to Prescott. It's also got an interesting locking mechanism instead of the traditional metal clip from hell for most processors." There's not much info beyond the photos, but it's still interesting to see what lies ahead for Intel.

Comments

Re:And this is interesting why?

[dslbrian]

The 150 Watt consumption is somewhat interesting.

The real question is how freaking big and loud is the cooler that has to deal with 150W???

Re:150 watts of?

[Waffle Iron]

Bah, that's nothing. My 2.4 GHz microwave oven can dissipate up to 1000 Watts !

But microwaves use expensive and smelly burrito heat sinks that only have a service life of about 5 minutes each.

How much power?

[NeoGeo64]

1.21 jiggawatts?! Where am I going to find that much power!? It's not possible!!

150 W?

[diegocgteleline.es]

150 W? What does that Tejas thing have, a Electric Chair Inside ?

Re:And this is interesting why?

[squiggleslash]

Basicly people are excited because it's a hotter CPU than anything for desktops that's come out before it (which is explained in the write up.) As you probably know, a primary concern of many is that their PC just doesn't pump out enough heat. This is why people overclock their CPUs: while you may be able to get a couple more FPS out of Quake by overclocking 5-10%, that's like nothing compared to the extraordinary heat generated.

This is also at the heart of Apple's G5 strategy. When they announced the PowerMac G5 had 9 fans, many people were enormously excited because it appeared to mean Apple had found a way of making their machines pump out more heat than any PCs around today. As it turned out, Apple was fooling everyone! Their fans are very slow and they use careful venting to make it appear the machine needs more fans than anything else.

That's why you should be excited by this...