Intel Quadro

I have a question... may seem a little obvious, but: is this quadro I keep hearing of for laptops? Also, what is so great about the Santa Rosa platform?

 

The Core 2 Quadro will initially be a desktop part. It'll probably turn up in laptops eventually.

Santa Rosa offers a new IGP (possibly with DX10 support) and an 800Mhz FSB for Merom CPUs. That's about all.

 

The Core 2 Quadro won't be used in laptops for a while. The next notebook processor (Penryn) which is due Oct. 2007 will still be a dual core processor just with more L2 cache (6MB - 8MB)

 

Are you sure Ceenote?

I once read that Penryn is going to be Quad-core and would have SATA-3 technology etc.

Charlie

 

It won't
It's going to be a while still before Intel has a decent quad-core solution. The first one is just two dualcore chips glued together, which means massive power consumption. It won't migrate to notebooks until they have a native quad-core design (like AMD will have relatively soon)

There's no such thing as SATA-3 either, btw. At least not yet

 

Actually, it is about 20 more watts under load, which isn't alot. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4317

 

Performance-increasing battery-eater?

 

Remember, this is for really high end desktops. More for the server aspect.

 

It will be a while before you see quad core processors marketed at the mainstream like dual core processors are now. Quad core processors from Intel and AMD will be released at the very high-end like the Extreme Edition from Intel and the FX from AMD and they will cost around the normal $1,000 price. Quad core is going to be mostly marketed for workstation/server environments because currently there is little benefit for a quad core processor to an average end user.

 

Mainstream Quad-Cores from Intel will be out Q1-2007 according to Intel. However, getting them in laptops is gonna be tough. Dual core is probably stretching the heat threshold in a laptop. Yonah and Merom run hot as it is and the only have two cores.

 

Just reading something about Santa Rosa, and it's apparently going to have some flash memory between the hard drive and RAM to speed up program access/loading, etc. Should be a big speed and battery boost.

 

Estimates are actually above the 1000 mark. Not sure on the final price though.

Isn't that Microsoft and Intel coming together. If I do remember correctly, isn't popping in a flash card or jumpdrive going to boost windows vista performance? Now just integrate that into the processor or bus, and you have intel's idea. Also, you have to consider that more likely in the next couple of years, you will start to see more gpu aspects put in the cpu (Ati/Amd merger). Intel is ahead now, but it is a never ending race.

 

My friend has a Dual Core T2300E, it runs up to 75 degrees after gaming. That just isnt normal, my 740 Sonoma runs up to 62 degrees maximum!

They really should handle heat and power consumption.

Charlie

 

My guess would be that Intel will start putting quad core cpus in notebooks from 2008 on. This chip is codenamed Silverthorne. However there's not a lot of info on this chip out yet. btw, made a mistake on my previous post. Penryn is supposed to have 3MB and 6MB L2 cache.

Here's the info:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/04/top_secret_intel_processor_plans_uncovered/page6.html