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Making a dream PC for cheap (as possible) - help anyone?
Lashiec:
f0dder, you confused poor vegas! ;D
Penryn is the new 45nm architecture that should be out soon. I feel lazy, so...there you have some of the details. Penryn is the codename for the whole family, and applicable to the laptop processors as well, as the Core 2 architecture is essentially a evolution of the different laptop processors the guys at Intel Israel have been developing all these years, so the desktop counterparts are souped-up versions of the laptop iterations. Then you have Wolfdale (dual core), and Yorkfield (quad core, two Core 2 Duo in the same die), they're simpy codenames for different versions of the same architecture.
Nehalem will come either at the end of 2008 or at the beginning of 2009, and it will be essentially a Core 2 meets Athlon64, as it will integrate much of what AMD introduced in that processor back in 2003 (memory controller, Intel's own flavor of HyperTransport, etc.), and it will gives you a taste of 8 core goodness, in a single circuit, just like Phenom does now with 4.
f0dder:
Well, Penryn is actually only the "extreme" series of the 45nm core2 generation, but it has become the codename for the whole generation... confused? Don't be, the same happened when Conroe was used as the codename for 65nm core2.
Memory controller integration will be for the next "tick" of intel's tick/tock development model - so not this 45nm generation.
Will be interesting to see what integrated memory controller does for Intel... it didn't give AMD that much advantage, but perhaps Intel will "do it right" and achieve massive performance boost? :)
Lashiec:
I was wondering why the major architectural changes in Intel processors were called 'tick', as 'tock' sounds stronger, guess f0dder got it wrong :)
f0dder:
Seem like I got it wrong, indeed - I though the ticks were the new stuff, since tick comes before tock... but oh well :)
Deozaan:
Thanks Lashiec, that article is very informative!
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