Penryn

The coming Future-"Penryn"

The year is 2007 and we are on the verge of yet another phenomenal product from intel......its the long awaited second generation of Core 2 Duo....its codenamed PENRYN.....the production will start in second half of year 2007....and most probably it will reach shops by november-december...

With more than 400 million transistors for dual-core processors and more than 800 million for quad-core, the 45nm Penryn family introduces new microarchitecture features for greater performance at a given frequency, plus expanded power management capabilities for new levels of energy efficiency. The 45nm Hi-k next generation Intel Core 2 and Intel Xeon processors have more transistors but are about 25 percent smaller in silicon area than Intel's current 65nm products and operate at the same or lower power than the current Intel Core 2 processors.

The Penryn family adds to the Intel Core 2 processor family:

* A second-generation quad-core desktop processor with up to 12MB L2 cache
* A new dual-core desktop processors with up to 6MB shared L2 cache
* A new low-power dual-core mobile processor with up to 6MB shared L2 cache and a new low-power state that substantially lowers processor idle power

The Penryn family also adds several new processors to the Intel Xeon processor family:

* A second-generation quad-core dual-processing (DP) server/workstation processor with up to 12 MB L2 cache
* A dual-core DP processor with 6MB shared L2 cache
* A multi-processing (MP) quad-core processor currently under development

Penryn processors deliver higher core and bus clock frequencies within existing power and thermal envelopes to further increase performance. Desktop and server products will introduce core speeds greater than 3GHz.

Penryn family processors include up to a 50 percent larger L2 cache with a higher degree of associativity to further improve the hit rate and maximize its utilization. Cache is a memory reservoir where frequently accessed data can be stored for more rapid access. Larger and faster cache sizes speed a computer's performance and response time.