Intel Highlights Its Next-Gen Dual-Core Chips

KingFishKingFish
edited May 2005 in Science & Tech
Intel President Paul Otellini announced three second-generation dual-core processors on Thursday and said first-generation prototypes are faring well.
In February, Intel said it was working on 15 dual-core chip designs, which combine two processing engines on a single slice of silicon, and on Thursday Otellini disclosed three new names.

Code names for those second-generation dual-core chips are Conroe, for desktop machines; Merom, for laptops; and Woodcrest, for lower-end servers with two processor sockets, Otellini said. They will succeed Presler, Yonah and Dempsey, respectively.

Otellini said Merom is scheduled to arrive "late next year," but didn't share other scheduling details. His presentation indicated that Conroe could arrive about the same time as Merom, but that Woodcrest will arrive after 2006.

Dual-core processors, which already have become commonplace in higher-end servers from IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, now are arriving in mainstream computers using x86 processors such as Intel's Xeon and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron. The dual-core design philosophy is the chip industry's answer to the question of how to make chips more useful without making them consume too much power and throw off too much heat.
Source: c|net

Comments

  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    More dual core is always good news to me. We may finally see some common programs written for SMP.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    Who's with me when I say that I just can't wait till they release an SMP version of Soltaire! :thumbsup:
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited May 2005
    I don't know about Soltare, but man SMP Solitaire, now that would kick ass! ;D
  • madmatmadmat
    edited May 2005
    I'm all for that...
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