The Lowdown on Intels Roadmap

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AnandTech have got a great article about Intels roadmap and future plans.

It is looking good for the much anticipated "Yonah" core made on 65nm. This chip will have similar clockspeed to the current chips and the 2mb L2 will stay.

The difference with Yonah, apparently, is that they are built from the ground up as dual core solution. This means intgrated processors rather than just two processors "glued" together and sharing cache. AnandTech are getting very excited about this and I can see why.

As a dual core solution, Yonah is the most advanced (other than perhaps Itanium 2 Monticeto) solution that we have seen out of either AMD or Intel. This has a lot to do with the fact that Yonah isn't just two cores slapped together (notice that they share the same cache). It is being built from the ground up as a dual core solution, similar to how Banias was designed specifically with the goal of low power and mobility. We have high hopes that it will realize better performance scaling than some of the other Intel dual core chips. Here's where things take an interesting twist.

Intel are famed for their excellent mobile chips and Yonah looks as though it may be intels saving grace for the next few years.

Its a very long article so I'm not going to go into mass detail. I'm just looking forward to what these new chips can do :wavey:

Full article @ AnandTech