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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.
So much power use from the first 90nm process cpu? There can be only one reason for this... the rumored twin core intel CPU. Let's see how hyperthreading run's on THIS baby!
Regarding those metal clips from hell, I've always wondered why Intel and AMD never followed the examples of Alpha, Sun, SGI, etc. machines. They usually have bolt on heatsinks that either bolt the CPU and heatsink together or sandwich the CPU between the mainboard and the heatsink.
It takes care of the flat head screwdriver ruined mainboard, and there are no clips to break off the socket itself. I'm glad they are finally changing the way x86 sockets work.
Cthulhu Saves.
It's interesting to see how what was once consideres "high-end" eventually makes it's way into the consumer desktop stuff.
For example, this chip appears to use a "pinless" package design. Instead of little pins that fit into the socket, it has little ever-so-slightly raised 'nubs'. These 'nubs' simply sit on top of contact points in the socket.
This pinless design was being used by Compaq for the Alpha CPU as early as 2000, so this isn't a new packaging technology. The only problem Compaq had with it, was keeping all the little 'nubs' firmly in contact with the corresponding points on the socket. They used some sort of plastic clip design at first, which ended up with a high failure rate - not for the CPU, but for the plastic retaining mechanism itself. That's probably why intel is using that big beefy metal retaining clip.
I guess intel learned something from all those Compaq Alpha engineers they bought a few years ago.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
the "lack of metal clip", however, is so exciting that I am sure that we are to see perpetual world peace from its announcement any minute now.
RTFA! Oh wait, this is SlahsDot.
Realize that this processor is a Prototype, fabbed on a process that doesn't reflect Intels true capabilities. So criticism as to it's heat dissipation is at best pre-mature and at worst, downright off topic.
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.