Intel's Penryn Chips...

I know the craze is over the Santa Rosa chips right now...But I just can help myself from waiting 'till Penryn shows up early next year to upgrade. I'm impressed by the new technology.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2007/04/18/idf_spring_2007_benchmarking_penryn/1
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...sse4-faster-virtualization-bigger-caches.html

Anyone else have information to add to this?

 

Not to hijack the thread, but I don't really see those chips in notebooks anytime soon. They're still pre-production desktop versions if I read it correctly? They sure seem impressive, but I can't help but feel that the biggest influence they'll have is driving down the cost of the best C2D and AMD chips. With their BUS/clock speeds getting so high, it seems they are surpassing the general population's needs. To take full advantage of their performance you NEED a super-high end video card, the fastest RAM, 10,000rpm HDD, etc.... I'm sure they'll set some impressive numbers, but wheres the application of these chips?

 

I'm also very impressed, thanks for posting the link.

It's amazing that only a relatively small part of the performance increase comes from the higher clockspeed. I am surprised that the larger cache resulted in such a large percentage improvement. Of course those are desktop chips.

 

Coming from this link:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/cpu-m...ssor-Roadmap-Penryn-Nehalem-and-the-Future/p1

It sounds like Q4 2007 or Q1 2008 we will be having some of the new processors in the "mobile arena".

 

You can correct me if I'm wrong but the smaller process length should also drive down power consumption as well as heat?

 

The first generation Penryn chips are supposed to be compatible with the Santa Rosa notebooks, which is nice.

 

I think we might see 3GHZ Mobile CPU. Also Quad Core Mobile(costing more than a grand I think) would release bcos of smaller process. I dunno when Intel intends to release montevina, but their appears to be too many changes on intel side( We have had core duo,core 2 duo, santa rosa).

 

Yes! I hear they have 2 versions of the new desktop chips which will be 3+ GHZ so I don't think 1 mobile chip is out of the questions. I also was reading somewhere that they are planning on releasing a few Quad-Core mobile chips for extreme users.

 

But if Intel can release X7900 ( 2.8ghz) with 65nm cant they release 3ghz with 45nm. Not immediately, but maybe 6-12 months into 45nm process. Lets keep hoping.

 

it wasn't a prediction.
3Ghz is a piece of cake for those who uses E6700
so,if intel released 3Ghz or above that would be useless coz many people could OC their rigs as simple as cake..

 

Are you sure they're compatible with current chipsets? I heard it will be 'Santa Rosa', but a refresh version of it. Then again, it may be like Napa, then the Merom refresh of Napa, which really just involved a BIOS flash in many cases. It will depend on vendor support though.

Yeah 3GHz is easily possible, but definitely not within the power envelope of most laptops. I for one would rather see them keep the speed around the same but decrease power consumption. Although Intel's been promising longer and longer battery life, it seems like their CPUs/chipsets are only consuming more and more power. Using TDP as a common measurement tool, these mobile CPUs have been increasing from 21W, then 24W, then 31W with Yonah, then 34W with Merom. Hopefully they can drop that down.

 

I'm thinking thats how it will be again; I've read in quite a few places that the Santa Rosa notebooks will be compatible with the Penryn chips.

I suppose they will introduce a new socket design with faster FSB and quad cores in Montevina.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071026/tc_nf/56299 :yes:

and.....
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202602140

I guess we still don't have a good estimate on availability of the notebook Penryns.