By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: March 7, 2006, 3:09 PM PT
Intel on Tuesday gave a name to the next-generation chip innards at the foundation of its counterattack against Advanced Micro Devices: the Intel Core microarchitecture. Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner unveiled the name and several performance and power details of processors using the design at the Intel Developer Forum here. The architecture, derived from the design of the Pentium M processor, puts a major emphasis on lowering power consumption and the older priority of boosting performance.
"Energy is on everyone's mind. It's the next frontier. Not only has it become a critical concern in our daily lives, it's become a critical concern in just about every platform we have," Rattner said in a speech at the show.
The Core microarchitecture is designed to deal with two related pains in computing, excessive power consumption and resulting waste heat. Improving performance per watt gives Intel a new sales pitch at a time when it faces market share losses to rival AMD compounded by financial troubles. The Core microarchitecture is the sequel to the ill-fated NetBurst microarchitecture used in Intel's Pentium 4 lineage. NetBurst was focused on achieving high clock speeds, but it drew inordinate amounts of power at fast speeds and Intel canceled its plans to take the design to 4GHz. (Read More)
Published on ZDNet News: March 7, 2006, 3:09 PM PT
Intel on Tuesday gave a name to the next-generation chip innards at the foundation of its counterattack against Advanced Micro Devices: the Intel Core microarchitecture. Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner unveiled the name and several performance and power details of processors using the design at the Intel Developer Forum here. The architecture, derived from the design of the Pentium M processor, puts a major emphasis on lowering power consumption and the older priority of boosting performance.
"Energy is on everyone's mind. It's the next frontier. Not only has it become a critical concern in our daily lives, it's become a critical concern in just about every platform we have," Rattner said in a speech at the show.
The Core microarchitecture is designed to deal with two related pains in computing, excessive power consumption and resulting waste heat. Improving performance per watt gives Intel a new sales pitch at a time when it faces market share losses to rival AMD compounded by financial troubles. The Core microarchitecture is the sequel to the ill-fated NetBurst microarchitecture used in Intel's Pentium 4 lineage. NetBurst was focused on achieving high clock speeds, but it drew inordinate amounts of power at fast speeds and Intel canceled its plans to take the design to 4GHz. (Read More)
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