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First Look At Intel Tejas & Socket 775

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the covert-ops dept.

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.

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  1. So much power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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!

  2. tradition by awing0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  3. Re:150 Watts? by mumblestheclown · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'm sure they're thinking that this is the best way for them to get ahead in the market to deliver the cpu power that tomorrow's demanding consumer requires. they don't make any money by "wasting" electricity so I'm sure they are doing what in their best interest is a good mix of engineering and catering to consumer needs. so tomorrow's cpu uses 150w. two light bulbs. jet engines use more fuel than reciprocating ones. if they made a bad technological bet, the marketplace will punish them. life moves on.

    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.

  4. How much power? by NeoGeo64 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. Re:It has no pins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    And it also may approach the heating capacity of an AMD chip

    No. It's much higher. The 'super-hot Athlon' preconception is way way out of date. It was true comparing Athlon "Thunderbirds" with PIIIs, but hasn't been true since the P4 - the 2GHz Willamette and 3.2GHz Northwoods both dissipate more power than any Athlon.

    The first Pentium was a stripped-together combination of 2 486-like CPUs

    No. You're trying to describe superscalar-ness but not succeeding. The Pentium was the first superscalar x86, having two integer pipelines. All modern x86 CPUs are superscalar (except the VIA C3). Superscalar-ness is not CMT/multicore. CMT appears as multiple CPUs to software.

  6. Tejas information by Saville · · Score: 5, Informative

    2/27/2003:
    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0, 3973,900185, 00.asp
    10/11/2003:
    http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/ cpu/display/200310110 84615.html
    misc:
    http://endian.net/details.asp?t ag=Tejas

    So it looks like it will come in in 2005 instead of the original 2H 2004. It'll have 24k L1 instead of 8k or 16k like current and prescott have. When it is made at 65nm insteadof 90nm it'll have 2megs L2 instead of 1meg.

    It should start eventually run as high as 5Ghz. Maybe that is on the 65nm process years from now? Bus speed should be 1066Mhz (266*4) or 1200.

    It should have some new instructions in order to make life harder for AMD.

    Fortunately for AMD Prescott was already supposed to be shipping at 3.8Ghz, but Intel is a bit behind on their road map too :)