blackpearl
The Devil
Today, Intel is announcing that its first full CPU built using the new 45nm high-k + metal gate transistors is not only up and running, but it has also booted four OSes. The very first packaged Penryn silicon from the very first wafer booted Windows Vista, Mac OS X, Windows XP and Linux on the first try.
The picture below is of Intel's validation team after they successfully booted Penryn on the above OSes.
*images.anandtech.com/reviews/cpu/intel/45nm/penryncrew.jpg
....At 45nm Intel should also be able to ramp up clock speed, so expect to see Penryn debut at over 3GHz easily. Given how overclockable Conroe turned out to be, we wouldn't be too surprised to see Penryn scale very well.
And the last bit of Penryn information Intel is letting out today is that it demonstrated Penryn up and running actual applications at a press briefing in Santa Clara on January 25th. There were five Penryn systems configured and clocked as follows:
1) 45nm dual core mobile processor in a notebook with Microsoft Vista running Microsoft Office 2003 applications.
2) 45nm dual-core desktop processor running high definition video content (1080P) under Microsoft Vista. 2.13 GHz
3) 45nm quad-core desktop processor running Ubisoft Rainbow Six Las Vegas game under Microsoft Vista. 1.86 GHz
4) Two 45nm dual-core processors running Glaze Workstation application under Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server. 2.13 GHz
5) Two 45nm quad-core processors encoding a video in Adobe Premier under Microsoft Vista. 2.13 GHz
All of the systems were air-cooled using normal heatsink/fan units. Unfortunately Intel wouldn't share any benchmarks or more details of the systems other than what software they were running.
Source: *www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2915
The picture below is of Intel's validation team after they successfully booted Penryn on the above OSes.
*images.anandtech.com/reviews/cpu/intel/45nm/penryncrew.jpg
....At 45nm Intel should also be able to ramp up clock speed, so expect to see Penryn debut at over 3GHz easily. Given how overclockable Conroe turned out to be, we wouldn't be too surprised to see Penryn scale very well.
And the last bit of Penryn information Intel is letting out today is that it demonstrated Penryn up and running actual applications at a press briefing in Santa Clara on January 25th. There were five Penryn systems configured and clocked as follows:
1) 45nm dual core mobile processor in a notebook with Microsoft Vista running Microsoft Office 2003 applications.
2) 45nm dual-core desktop processor running high definition video content (1080P) under Microsoft Vista. 2.13 GHz
3) 45nm quad-core desktop processor running Ubisoft Rainbow Six Las Vegas game under Microsoft Vista. 1.86 GHz
4) Two 45nm dual-core processors running Glaze Workstation application under Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server. 2.13 GHz
5) Two 45nm quad-core processors encoding a video in Adobe Premier under Microsoft Vista. 2.13 GHz
All of the systems were air-cooled using normal heatsink/fan units. Unfortunately Intel wouldn't share any benchmarks or more details of the systems other than what software they were running.
Source: *www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2915
