I seen a benchmark of the new Intel CPU. It was interesting, it was 10 faster than my old celeron with Presscott core. (It’s a dual purpose with a heater) The most interesting thing is the Intel decreased power requirements, and increased efficiency per cycle at slightly (1/5 above AMD level). They decreased frequency back into reasonable non market toy amount, so they seems to don’t heat too much. Only question is with overclock ability. Would they be as awsome overclockers as Celerons D?
The first CPUs seems to be clocked at (dual core) 1.8 GHz, 2.05, 2.4, 2.6 with coresponding prices aprox 180 205 … 512. If they would enter with these prices they would be overpriced considering cost of the AMD X2, and higher yields from Intel 65 nm process.
Intel seems to enter for 6 months a speet spot. Of course if they would be able to use it, or if they would waste it by too high prices is questionable.
The question would be when would AMD start with 65 nm, and more importantly with 45 nm technology? Would it be fast enough to don’t lose too much of market? The slight increase in capability of CPU is at most 4 - 6 month work, if they didn’t overslept. Addition of a 128 SSE2 one cycle multiplication would be also quite interesting. It seem the important task for AMD would be starting up and make reliable the 45 nm technology quickly, and most importantly with high yield factors.
The more efficient architecture of new types of Intels CPUs (currently available only in notebook like CPU versions) is just a thing that should appear naturally, not as a forced event because of the heat / and power problems of the Net Burst architecture. So it’s no surprise they were able to crank it out, it’s rather surprissing it took them so long. It seem the market economy is bad catalyzer of a new inventions. (Yes they were forced into this becouse of the AMD, however they were forced into it 1.5 year later, than they should be.)
Quad core is supposed to be after Intel would come with 45 nm technology. It’s obvious, while dual core new CPUs are under 90 W envelope, quad core CPUs wouldn’t be.
Of course the more tests couldn’t be done because the CPUs are not on market yet. It would be interesting if they have barrel shifter in each ALU, and how efficiently would be implementable the really weird optimalization hacks. ~_^