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Intel Launching 'Merom' Notebook Processor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on

Hans Pecheston writes "Merom, Intel's notebook processor, will be joining in the festivities at their upcoming launch event. This chip will continue to use the Core 2 Duo brand and should display additional improvements in performance and power consumption over the current chips. Intel has already begun to ship Merom processors to its PC customers and systems with Merom should begin to appear around the end of August."

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  1. And in the first week of August... by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny

    They will be announced in a new line-up of MacBook Pros.

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    1. Re:And in the first week of August... by thermopile · · Score: 2, Funny

      This will open up at least two new ways to win in John Siracusa's bingo...

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    2. Re:And in the first week of August... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      At least from what I've seen, the pricing difference between the MB and MBP and comparably eqipped PC laptops aren't really so far off.

      Is that why the only clothes you Mac guys can afford is black turtle necks and jeans?

  2. Meromonics by digitaldc · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess the 'Moron' processor name was already taken

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    1. Re:Meromonics by Durandal64 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Since it's one processor with multiple cores, "Mormon" would be an appropriate code name. ;)

    2. Re:Meromonics by houghi · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought it was talking about the (note)book of Mormons.

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  3. Core Duo vs. Core 2 Duo by everphilski · · Score: 3, Funny

    Core 2 Duo ... how's that different from Core Duo? from gur3d.com
    The key differences of the new architecture [Core 2 Duo] from the "ideologically closest" Intel Core Duo (Yonah) are as follows:
    * Improved instruction decoder extended to 4 decoders of x86 macroops (vs. 3 of Intel Pentium M / Core Duo)
    * 128-bit SIMD instruction performance of 1 instruction per clock in each execution unit (twice as faster as Yonah)
    * Improved memory operation and hardware prefetch mechanisms
    * L2 cache is dynamically shared by both cores depending on load (as seen in Intel Core Duo)
    * Further improved energy saving
    * A new SIMD instruction set SSE4.

  4. I wonder.. by metushelach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Considering their R&D center for this processor is in Haifa, is this what the Hizbollah are REALLY after? (Or rather - Can it be that the true culprit behind the latest clashing in the middle east is, actually, AMD?) One has to wonder..

  5. This is so cool.. by saboola · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just ordered a Core Duo about 10 minutes ago, sweet! Glad to know its obsolete before it even hits my doorstep :)

  6. Re:iMac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's true, armies don't usually have many flasgships. Navies, on the other hand...