Intel demonstrates 45-nanometer processors

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Intel demon­strated its Pen­ryn chip fam­ily for reporters and ana­lysts last week.

These proces­sors are enhanced, smaller ver­sions of the Core 2 Duo design. The main new fea­ture is enhanced mul­ti­me­dia and math­e­mat­i­cal per­for­mance, through the use of SSE4 instructions.

Of course, the smaller tran­sis­tor size should reduce power con­sump­tion and heat.
They’ll be avail­able by the end of 2007 for desk­top, portable and server com­put­ers.
Thanks to one of my IS 7010 stu­dents for this tip!

For more infor­ma­tion about this tech­nol­ogy, see http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25512 and http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/04/top_secret_intel_processor_plans_uncovered/page6.html

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