Intel Releases Quad-Core Processor
Intel has demo’d the 45nm quad-core mobile processor which is planned to be released next year.
Intel claimed they were on track to bring the part to market in H2 2008 - in Q3, though that’s not a timeframe Intel has yet made public.
The CPU is based on Intel’s upcoming 45nm ’Penryn’ micro architecture. The transistor count points to an on-board L2 cache extending to 12MB in two 6MB units shared between each core pair.
The quad-core chip, which will almost certainly ship as a Core 2 Extreme family member, consumes 45W - 10W more than mainstream mobile Core 2 Duos’ 35W power envelope but within reach of the kind of cooling technologies available to today’s developers of high-end, desktop-replacement gaming notebooks.
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