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Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the four-is-way-more-than-three dept.

Joe writes "Yorkfield Extreme Edition based on the 45nm Penry core architecture will meet heads-on with AMD Altair based on the 65nm K8L core in Q3 2007 as reported by VR-Zone. Due to its advanced 45nm process technology, Yorkfield XE is able to pack a total of 12MB L2 cache (2 x 6MB L2) and still achieving a much smaller die size and higher clock speed of 3.43-3.73Ghz. Yorkfield will feature Penryn New Instructions (PNI) or more officially known as SSE4 with 50 more new instructions. Yorkfield XE will pair up nicely with the Bearlake-X chipset supporting DDR3 1333, PCI Express 2.0 and ICH9x coming in the Q3 '07 timeframe as well."

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  1. I for one... by Demanche · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one... Will... wait for those 80 core CPU's intel said they will have in a 'few' years. I'll refuse to upgrade till I get one! :D

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  2. Re:what new instructions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here are details about the new instructions.

    RISC is dead. I miss it too.