Core dual 2.9 VS X2 3.4

Yep, I'm excited about Merom myself. Yonah is just a temporary, disposable stepping stone for it.
 
Yeah, but let's hope AMD brings out a formidable answer to Conroe. If Intel is to be believed (this time) it seems they've won next round.
 
perplex said:
Yeah, but let's hope AMD brings out a formidable answer to Conroe. If Intel is to be believed (this time) it seems they've won next round.
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Ya intel wins this round its exciting but Intels roadmaps for H2 07 with penryn(spelling)

are just as or even more impressive!!!!


Fab D1D in Hillsboro, Oregon, will be 45-nanometerized first in order to be ready for mass manufacturing of final 45 nm products in the second half of 2007. This generation is still going to be based on the processor design that Merom is going to introduce in mid 2006, but due to several modifications in addition to the die shrink it will be called Penryn. According to our information, there won't be many chances in comparison to Merom. The cache size, however, will be increased by 50%, resulting in cache sizes of 3 MB and 6 MB L2 cache for the dual core processor versions.





This is the first time Intel is eventually not deploying doubled L2 caches. Looking back at the last processor generations we had 2 MB, 1 MB, 512 kB and 256 kB, making 4 MB and 8 MB the next logical steps. However, we suppose that Intel decided to slow down the cache size increase in favor of quicker adoption of quad core chips. In addition, Intel could be cooking some new processor features we aren't aware of today and which potentially eat up some of the transistor real estate that the 45 nm shrink enables.
 
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