Details of Intel 45nm Processors Leaked

DCC writes "TechARP has gotten some juicy news from Intel. This time, it's the top secret details of the Intel 45nm desktop processors, both Yorkfield and Wolfdale with benchmarks and pricing included! 'As promised earlier, Intel will launch their 45 nm processors by the end of this year. In fact, we have been told that the launch date had already been set at November 11, 2007, so mark your calendars. [...] Code-named Yorkfield XE, the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 will be a quad-core processor built from two 45 nm Wolfdale processor dies. It will displace the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (Kentsfield) processor as the top desktop processor model until Q3, 2008'"

Comments

here we go again

[Connie_Lingus]

Jimbob's Corollary to Moore's Law...

Every 18 months I will become ever more numbed by the announcement of denser and denser chips.

Re:Time for a new naming convention?

[dextromulous]

I think it would be nice if the chip makers could agree on some kind of general performance benchmark number that could be used in names to make processors more easily comparable.

You mean like BogoMIPS? That reminds me of my favorite lines from the Linux 2.4 source code: arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
/*
* Allow the user to impress friends.
*/
After which is the calculation for bogomips.