90-95W Smithfields and 60W desktop processors coming

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http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050302_204846.html

In the long-term, mainstream desktop processors are targeted at a power envelope of 60 watts, down from a staggering maximum consumption 130 watts of the new Pentium Extreme Edition 840, according to Benson Inkley, a senior procesor applications engineer, with Intel.

The company also updated power consumption for Pentium D (Smithfield). "There will be processors at a level of 90 to 95 watts," Inkley said.

The cooler Smithfields will probably be at the lower end (3GHz) like the current 84W Prescott-2MB and P4 "F" (2.8GHz-3.4GHz) processors. 60W processors will probably be the 65nm Presler next year.

90-95W TDP is the same power that the dual core Athlon 64s are support to run.