Intel Penryn coming November 11th; Full lineup prices
Here’s some nice juicy leaked information this evening from Intel; a list of their entire launch lineup of the 45nm Penryn chipset (details here; benchmarks here) that will occur on November 11th. Be sure to come back on that day for a full review! (if the rumored date is true; we cannot confirm that here).
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First Penryn Benchmarks
Intel has provided us with some benchmarks of their dual- and quad-core 45nm Penryn processors. We normally aren’t to keen on posting furnished benchmarks, but Intel has a proven history of being spot on with their benchmarks in the past, so here you go (click for full size):
As you can see, it is smoking fast. [...]
Intel 45nm Penryn and Nehalem - Approaching 1 billion transistors
Intel has spilled some beans on their upcoming 45nm core, codenamed Penryn, while giving a bit of info on the next microarchitecture set to appear in 2008, currently codenamed Nehalem. Check out Intel.com for the full scoop, but here are a few tidbits:
Penryn is expected to have approximately twice the amount of transistors as [...]
