Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Calpella will come this fall


Continuing the theme of the new processors Intel Nehalem. Only this time it comes on the mobile rather than desktop processors. So, according to PC Watch, Intel has made substantial changes to its mobile roadmap (plan to release products) and pulled back from Auburndale. According to recent data, the first mobile processors on the architecture of Nehalem, which will be presented in September this year, this 4-nuclear Clarksfield. It is they who should be the main component of the next mobile platform Calpella (Centrino 3).


According to preliminary data, a series of Clarksfield will be represented by two or three models that are likely to have a nominal clock frequency of 2 GHz and above. These processors will have 8 MB of cache, including cache L3, and will support an interface PCI Express 2.0. By the way, another important component Calpella is the set of system logic Ibex Peak, which will "talk" to the processor through the system bus QuickPath Interconnect (QPI).

It should be noted that the new roadmap Intel processors really disappeared Auburndale, that the idea must have an integrated graphic core. But it first appeared Clarsfield version with the cache size is less than 8 MB. In addition, in the I quarter of 2010 we will see the first processor Arrandale. In fact, they will be the first processor from Intel, which will have integrated graphics. Moreover, it is 32 nm 2-nuclear chips.

If the information provided by PC Watch, true, one can say that Intel has decided to abandon the production of 45 nm mobile processors on the architecture of Nehalem. It is possible that the processor giant has already mastered the new production methods has decided to skip the phase in its Biphasic tick tick-tock strategy at this time.