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Intel 45nm Fab Process Launched And Penryn Preview
NinjaKicks writes "Intel has decided to make public
details of their new 45nm manufacturing
process and also has broken news that next-gen Penryn core processors are
running various versions of Windows and Vista successfully. Penryn will offer a host of core tweaks over Conroe, larger cache sizes, and SSE4 support. Also, although clock speeds
will be increased, processors based on Penryn should fall within the same
thermal power range as Conroe. Word is Penryn will also be compatible with some
of the existing motherboards on the market while others will need either a BIOS
update or perhaps other board-level changes."
2 duel-cores
Spelling Nazi time: It's dual! Dual! It's only "duel" if your processors are firing pistols at each other from 10 paces at dawn!
Monstar L
I have been convinced for a long time that software bloat is not a problem. You touch on the reason. For the last decade, it has been cheaper to throw more hardware at a problem than it has been to optimize code. At some point in time, there will likely be a stall in speeding up hardware. When that happens we have a many years of continuing our computer speed ups via software optimizations. Heck, I know that I write inefficient code all the time. It is a simple cost/benefit choice. My clients do not want to pay tens of thousands of dollars to solve a problem that can be solved with $1000 worth of hardware. It's not that I couldn't optimize my code, and it's not that I wouldn't love to optimize my code. It's just the most companies don't want to pay for it.