News on Intels Mobile Dual Cores

[FarFarAway]

Intel have released tif-bits of their Mobile Dual Core CPU's. As a lot of us know, Intels mobile procs are great.....some would say much better than their desktops. This is excellent news for the mobile consumer market and should lead to some damn powerful lappy's soon!!

Intel shed a little more light on its forthcoming dual-core mobile chip today in a briefing with reporters, confirming that the Yonah processor's two cores will share a single bank of cache memory

Yonah is the code name for the dual-core version of Intel's Pentium M processor for notebooks and miniature desktops, scheduled for release in the first quarter of next year. Unlike Intel's first dual-core designs for desktop PCs, Yonah is a much more integrated design that shares storage and power management resources within the chip, said Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of Intel's mobile platforms group.

Looks pretty sweet...as does this:

In the Yonah processor, a single 2M-byte cache memory bank is available to both cores, reducing the chance that data will have to leave the chip to be temporarily stored in a system's main memory bank

Well I can't wait to see what these babies can do. With Intels new stagety of aiming Pentium D's at the lower price range of the market, they should blow (too much) of a hole in your pocket!!

Full article @ PCWorld

 

[FragTek]

These look to be promising indeed.