Niso Levitas · 09-25-2007 · Category: Tech-planations

45 Nanometer Results

Do not forget, both systems built by Intel. Even though results are too fascinating to deny.

With the new environment-friendly 45nm technology Intel CPUs are lead-free. After 2008 Q2 they won't contain halogen also. In the meantime the power consumption in the idle mode reduces. This mode implies disabling the cores, with the cache memory disabled completely. This allows for a substantial decrease in the core voltage and the power consumption, which in turn prolongs the battery operation life.

After Penryn chips has been established, Intel plans to present its Nehalem processors. Berifly: It will work multi core and also hyper-threaded. Which means dual processors, four cores work hyper threaded in 16 ways. Additionally it offers a new feature named "QuickAssist" that provides better communication between multiple processors. QuickAssist first disclosed at the IDF in Beijing in April. Here are the schematics for Quick Assist and AMD's Barcelona. It seems similar to AMD's "Hyper-Transport".

They showed a real-time 16 thread demo of a working system with the photo "small" group of Nehalem engineers.

45nm Penryn will also have a mobile processors named Montevina platform. Compared to previous mobile processor 35-watt Santa Rosa platform new platform consumes 10 W less power. The new processor will allow notebooks to be around 25 percent thinner. Intel will also reduce the package sizes on its chips, allowing motherboard dimensions to be reduced to around 60 percent of the size of a similar Santa Rosa-based motherboard. These factors will reduce the cooling requirements. Consequently, notebook batteries going to last longer and be lighter. Thereafter comes 32nm technologies Westmere and Sandy bridge. We will see them on the next IDFs..

Contents

1. Introduction
2. 45 Nanometer Technology
3. 45 Nanometer Results
4. Technology Breaks
5. USB 3.0 - PCI-E 3.0
6. SATA 2.6
7. SURGERY SIMULATION

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