RSSIntel Demos Low-Power Laptop Chips
By Ed Oswald | Published December 14, 2005, 12:15 PM
Intel's next-generation mobile platform, codenamed "Napa", will use a quarter of the power, but still see boosts in performance, the chipmaker said on Tuesday. Facing fiercer competition from rival AMD, Intel is looking for ways to ensure it remains dominant in the processor industry.
The Napa chipset will be based on the company's new "Yonah" microprocessor, which is Intel's first dual-core mobile chip. According to tests, Yonha will use 28 less power while performing 68 perfect quicker than the Pentium M used in Intel's Centrino package.
Less power consumption means that laptops based on the chip would be able to extend battery life. In addition, they would run cooler, which has become an important factor for computer makers as they try to figure out ways to dissipate generated heat more effectively.
Also, changes in the way the chip is manufactured with a 65-nanometer process would allow for circuitry to be etched 100 times smaller than the human hair. Thus, the processors can be made smaller, allowing for slimmer designed laptops.
Napa is expected to launch in January with clock speeds ranging from 1.5 GHz to 2.16 GHz, and has been rumored to have been selected for the much-anticipated Intel-based Apple laptops. Apple is expected to announced a new Intel iBook during Macworld in January.
"Intel is looking for ways to ensure it remains dominant in the processor industry"
Too late.
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Right... cause we all know how popular those AMD chips are - works as a microprocessor and later (after 6 months) as a dangerous way to make fried eggs
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AMD processors have ran cooler than Intel ones recently.
I still have an Athlon XP though, and it's nice and toasty at 50C.
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Get with the times. AMD's chips have been cooler than Intel's for a while now. 100W+ Prescott, anyone? :P
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Really? I've been using my Athlon 1Ghz ThunderBird for over 4 years now.
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OMG, I need to own one of this babies!!
A super notebook that can run faster with longer battery life.
oh, and the MXM type of vga card! :)
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This is just as sweet as one would expect...I am 'buying' my notebook almost half-year now(doh!) going through gazillion of options...but I waited for this =)
I knew it'll come when the world shake and Intel-Apple annoucement was made, I just didn't know it'll be true and be so early in January!
I needed intel chipset(it rocks in notebooks, really no competition here), but I needed 64-bit(only Turion now) because of Vista(64bit Vista is rumored to be a bit better in terms of security and performance than 32bit) and also a good price with adequate video card. Seems when I pick up the lowest version(which will be adequate for development) and only with 1 core with 'updated' integrated Intel accelerator I'll get a dream DX9 developer notebook with ability to play some old games wooohooo, and option to run OSX10 too. And longer battery and...and...STOP!
this is just sweeeet!
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I am with you... been "buying" for a long time waiting for this too. I really need the performance for the notebook, since I plan to run VMWare with a couple development-environments at once. So, bring on the speed!
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"Yonha will use 28 less power while performing 68 perfect"
Missed the % and misspelled percent, Ed.
One word, man...proofreading. You should try it sometime.
;P
Might want to fix the "announced" in the last sentance too. Should be announce.
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LOL
You might want to check your spelling of "sentence"
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Dammit!
Skitt's Law strikes again. (I'd provide a link, but BN screws it by putting an extra \ in there...just look in up in Wikipedia)
I'd already corrected about 4 of them before you caught that, almost all of them in the last "sentance".
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This definitely sounds like a nice chip. Dual-core, 64bit, and lower powerconsumption? Sounds good to me. Too bad I just got a new laptop. :(
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Still want to see how it measures up in normal use to the fastest Mobile Athlon processor.
I know they aren't Dual-Core, but is that really necessary in a laptop?
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Sweet. I think I know what cpu my next laptop will have.
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"Thus, the processors can be made smaller, allowing for slimmer designed laptops."
lol. perhaps this sentance would make sense if they mentioned the fact that the heat disipation would be less and therefore cooling can be simplified and that could lead to slimmer laptops.
The way it is now it sounds like the chip is the reason that a laptop is so big.
If I remember correctly Yonah is 64bit capable
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So... if it's going to be in a Apple laptop wouldn't that mean the processor is also 64-bit?
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