Mobile Core i7 processor mentioned on Dell.ca

I don't know if this has been brought up yet but the Studio 15 site on dell.ca mentions a mobile Core i7 processor:

"NEW! Now featuring optional Intel® Core™ i7 Mobile Processors: Intelligent performance for fast multi-tasking and digital media creation"

You can't configure the laptop with this mysterious processor but i still thought I should bring it up. Typo or what? I thought they weren't supposed to be out for a while.

Link:

http://www1.ca.dell.com/ca/en/home/...d=laptop-studio-1555&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&ref=lthp

 

So, does this mean that the Studio 15 is getting the quad cores launching this year, or is Dell months early on the Arrandale release?

Just looked at Dell US, it says Core 2 Duo.

 

I don't know why you concluded it'll be early Arrandale release.

The only plausible explanation is that the person who was making the website made a mistake and posted the ad info a bit early. Anyway, the quad core Clarksfield is less than a month away(Sept 23). Indication Intel is close to launching mobile i7's .

 

Can't wait for the new mobile platform to hit notebooks.

 

I like this. I'm still going to try and hold out for 32nm CPU with a 40nm GPU. That'll sell me fast.

 

That'd also empty your wallet even quicker.

 

And I'll just wait for those 4nm processors... maybe by then they will have 1nm processors on the roadmap.

 

Don't give up! wait for 1nm processors

 

Mobile Core i7 on the Studio 15? There goes the battery life...

 

lol someone at dell just lost his bonus.

 

heck yeah, 1nm processors. Maybe we can get some laptops with 6 quad core hyperthreading processors.

 

Remember its Mobile Core i7, not regular i7. These CPUs should bring battery life improvements similar if not better as between 45nm Penryn and 65nm Menlow with similar amount of cores. On the desktop side Lynnfield is bringing substantial power reductions at the system level compared to Core 2 Quad: http://www.parkoz.com/zboard/view.php?id=int_news&no=17102

Mobile Core 2 Quad --> Mobile Core i7 Quad = Mobile Core 2 65nm --> Mobile Core 2 45nm

It should be even better off with Arrandale with graphics being managed by the CPU and being on a smaller process(compared to Core 2 with two cores).

 

This could be true. Here's an article saying Mobile iCore 7 chips will coincide with Window 7 release. MSI have already announced (a slip really) that they will launch new laptops with Mobile iCore 7 chips.

http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2009/08/28/intel-core-i7-mobile-laptop-chips-to-launch-with-windows-7/

 

They will never exist, lowest is 16nm i think, below that the transistors are unstable.

 

They could go smaller with newer materials, graphene (or similar name) has great potential and becomes more conductive as it gets hotter, and there's some DNA stuff that can help make 6nm transistors possible with potential to go down to 1nm.
Would be interesting to see a new laptop with clarksfield, hopefully they'd pair it with a new graphics card to make the most of it (gts 250/260m or ATI equiv)

 

This is going to be good. Expect more quad core i7's into smaller form factor laptops.

 

Link

 

Never say never.

 

Wasn't it Bill Gates that said no one would need more than 4K of System memory? wow... my MOBO supports 24GB... 1nm, I'm sure there is a way, but I'm sure it's going to be very very difficult.

 

I forgot to add that my statement only applies to silicon based CPU's. By 2022 they would have invented/ created a newer material, which as I can see will support...interesting

Wonder what will the TDP be with 4nm..

 

Hopefully <5W for passive cooling

 

Not necessarily, as the slide shows that they will be moving to different gate structures, which can still work with Si, or SiGe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finfet#FinFETs

 

I gave out to much rep today.. but I wanted to thank you for dumbing it down forthe rest of us.. Pictures always help thos of us that did not graduate cal tech, berkley and / or MIT..

Thanks for the info, JW

 

Hell no, I want passive cooling by 2012 for the launch of Haswell.

Really though, what are the chances of passive cooling for 22nm in a laptop without ATI or Nvidia graphics?

 

Doubtful. Maybe the ULV equivalent will hit 5W (though this might not be enough for passive cooling in a notebook).

 

so um, for the 1nm processors, how the crap are you going to be able to apply thermal paste? Obsolete? With a microscope?

 

With the thermal savings smaller transistors offer, they add more to gain performance, so they're always shooting for the same TDPs.

The x nm refers to the smallest feature size of the transistors in the process (typically, the width of the channel).

 

1nm transistor...why not?