Intel to ship Penryn by year-end

CMN Bureau

NEW DELHI: Intel will start shipping its 45 nm microprocessor, Penryn, by this year-end.

Steve Dallman, general manager, worldwide reseller channel organisations, Intel corp. said, “We have managed to put in 30 million transistors in the new 45 nm processor.”

Penryn is the code name for Intel’s Next Generation Intel Core 2 Family processor micro-architecture, which is an improvement on the Core micro-architecture introduced last year.

The new processor is expected to deliver more performance at the same clock speed compared to our Core 2 Duo processors. It is a dual core product with a shared 6 MB L2 cache.

The Penryn family enables optimized products for each of the target market segments from the high end Xeon all the way to mobile.

Dallman said that Intel is also working on reducing the size as well as the power consumed by the processors. “Intel is aiming to reduce the size of the processor by one-seventh and the power consumed by one-tenth in the next five years,” he added.