Intel-processors become spectacularly more economically
On the first day of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel has are plans done for future processors from the cloths. Central state the development of energiezuinige chips.
Spear point is Merom, the dual-core notebookchip that expected becomes in the second half by 2006. A first version of Merom will consume at most 5 watts. End 2006 is launched is even an ultrazuinige version this satisfied with 0.5 watts. To comparison: the present Pentium M-chips consume consumes at most 22 watts; the slightest hungry 5.5 watts.
Almost simultaneously Intel will set an energiezuinige dual-core processor for desktopcomputers on the market. Conroe, the desktopbroertje of Merom, will use at most 65 watts. The present Pentium 4-processors have yet 95 watts necessarily.
Also the electricities invoice of servers promises to go drastically to below. Woodcrest will consume at most 80 watts, signaling less then the 110 watts of the existing Xeon-serverprocessors.
Only there it do not stops for Intel. Yet for the end of this decade want Intel start with the production of a processor for consumers electronics that ten time less stream consumes then the Merom.,. This ultrazuinige processor must advanced applications on mobile devices as gsm's and PDA possible make. Intel CEO Paul Otellini: “We come with 'factor 10'-doorbraken: products that, compared with that from now, a tenth of the stream consume, while they ten turn so powerful are. “.
Striking is that Intel distance takes of single existing technologies. Most important victim is Hyper-threading, ht exit plate of the Pentium 4-processors. In the new generation chips, that is launched in the second half by 2006, is for Hyper-threading temporarily no place more. Later versions will have probably source a form of Hyper-threading on board.
The largest chip manufacturer in the world clips moreover drastically in the number training period pipe line. As source the Merom, the Conroe as the Woodcrest have a 14-training period pipe line. By its debut bred the Pentium 4 a 20-training period pipe line; later on became this pulled up until 31. More steps in the pipe line comes indeed the speed to good, but sees to also for a larger powerverbruik - what Intel now just want to avoid.
The new processors put self satisfied with a single cache, comparable to the dual-core Power 4-chips of IBM. The existing dual-core chips of Intel and AMD now yet a separate cache have.
The new chips can refer also to an improved out-or-order execution unit. This sees to for better performances because the chip a task can beindigen without waiting on the result of other calculations.