Intel Provides Details on New Products, Initiatives for Higher-Performing, More Effic

[Mr. Smith]

The article provides some preliminary performance details between pre-production 45nm Hi-k quad core processor running @ 3.33GHz with a 1333MHz FSB and 12MB cache, versus Core2 QX6800 @ 2.93GHz with 1066 FSB and 8MB cache.

The figures look astounding...

Gelsinger provided performance indicators for Intel's upcoming Penryn family of processors. For desktop PCs, he said to expect increases of about 15 percent for imaging-related applications; 25 percent for 3-D rendering; more than 40 percent for gaming; and more than 40 percent faster video encoding with Intel SSE4 optimized video encoders. The indicators were based on pre-production 45nm Hi-k Intel® quad core processor running at 3.33 Gigahertz (GHz) with a 1333 Megahertz (MHz) front side bus (FSB) and 12MB cache versus an Intel® Core(TM) 2 Extreme processor QX6800 introduced last week at 2.93 GHz with 1066 FSB and 8MB cache.

Also,

Gelsinger said that Intel has begun planning products based on a highly parallel, IA-based programmable architecture codenamed "Larrabee." ...designed to scale to trillions of floating point operations per second (Teraflops) of performance...

QuickAssist Technology - a comprehensive initiative to optimize the use of accelerators in servers. Accelerators increase the performance of a single function, like security encryption or financial computation, while reducing power consumption

"Tolapai" plans, the first in what will be a family of enterprise-class "system-on-chip" (SoC) products that integrate several key system components into a single Intel architecture-based processor. The 2008 Tolapai product is expected to reduce the chip sizes by up to 45 percent and power consumption by approximately 20 percent

Intel's high-end multi-processor servers (codenamed "Caneland"). The quad- and dual-core Intel Xeon® processor 7300 series will arrive in the third quarter in 80- and 50-watt versions for blades.

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