“Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday company chief executive Paul Otellini said the industry is on a new ‘performance per watt’ course that will deliver powerful Intel-based computers that are increasingly smaller, sleeker and more energy-efficient,” AppleInsider reports. “During his keynote address at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Otellini unveiled the company’s next-generation, power-optimized micro-architecture for future digital home, enterprise, mobile and emerging market platforms — and low-power products aimed at a new category of converged consumer devices.”
AppleInsider reports, “In the second half of 2006, Otellini said Intel will introduce the micro-architecture, which combines the strength of the company’s current Intel NetBurst and Pentium M micro-architectures and adds new features. ‘We will deliver ‘factor of 10’ breakthroughs to a variety of platforms that can reduce energy consumption tenfold or bring 10 times the performance of today’s products. Otellini showed the first public demonstration of Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest, which are codenames for upcoming Intel processors for notebook, desktop and server platforms designed on the company’s 65-nanometer technology manufacturing process. He also said Intel has more than 10 processor projects that contain four (quad-core) or more processor cores per chip.”
Full article with more details here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Intel to debut new processor performance yardstick: ‘performance per watt’ – August 15, 2005
Intel to deliver dual-core, hyper-threaded processors ahead of schedule – August 15, 2005
Intel to announce shift to new microprocessor technology – August 12, 2005
Report: Mac OS X for Intel hacked to run on non-apple x86 PCs – August 11, 2005
DRM chip in Intel-based developer Macs prevents Mac OS X from running on non-Apple PCs – August 05, 2005
Arizona wins $3 billion Intel plant – July 27, 2005
Apple joins Intel at Carnegie Mellon – July 26, 2005
Intel to renovate desktop processor line in 2006 with transition from 90 nm to 65 nm – July 15, 2005
Apple to use Intel microprocessors beginning in 2006, all Macs to be Intel-based by end of 2007 – June 06, 2005
So instead of a G6, will we be getting M1’s?
I like that…
Instead of the Abrams M1 Battle Tank, we’ll get the Apple M1 Battle Mac!!!
Intel inside still feels like indigestion but I’ll live
Man these names suck! Probably the same guy who names Ikea products.
The Powerbook Manhattan Project edition. The keys glow in the dark and so will you.
Yeah. Icky eh?
Second half of 2006? Will Apple wait for these new chips or bring out Intel Macs with obsolete Pentium chips early next year?
Spark, that’s a good question…
Ikea product names, that’s good!
Actually, Intel has 17 multi-core projects under development and expects more than 85 percent of its volume exiting 2006 to be multi-core processors.
PB with Intel in first half of 2006.
I think the powermacs will be good if they decide not to wait and upgrade them. They’ve overclocked the pentium 4 to 7ghz, so I’m cool either way.
So the next Power Mac might have dual processors with quad cores? Count me in!!
MW = “moving” as in “Moving on up to to a dual quad Power Mac!”
Intel inside still feels like indigestion but I’ll live
just goes to prove many people like Macs because they’re not windows… and it’s more “cool”
Many Mac users are clueless zealots… or not objective. Those type of users annoy windows users…
no offense, btw… i’m not talking about you, here… just some people are actually like that…
Meanwhile, AMD is taking out full page ads in newspapers challenging Intel to a duel:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122284,00.asp
atomic flower – you are one of the few wise ones around here. long time no see
Kool-Aid is so refreshing. Drink it up folks.
I must have missed the memo….horsepower matters now?
While a lot of Mac lovers will yearn for the days when Moto and IBM failed to deliver on performance boosts I am actually looking forward to seeing what Intel can do with Apple. I don’t confuse Windows with Intel. I have a feeling that Intel is actually excited about working with an innovative computer company. They have been stuck for too many years with customers that only want to mass produce rather dull, cheap boxes and Apple presents them with the opportunity to push their own innovation onto the market.
for those of you who are old enough, an m-1 isn’t a tank, it is a rifle.
Notebooks: Yonah, a new notebook chip, will appear in the first part of 2006 before Merom.
per cnet article.
Peter, do you really want to bring a gun to a tank fight?
Hey, in case you guys didn’t know, Ikea’s products are to great extent named after Swedish words because the company and the designers are mostly Swedish. Incidentally I bought a “Malm” chest with 2 drawers from Ikea today. Malm is Swedish for ore… yeah, doesn’t make any sense in English, either.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
Otellini says: “We will deliver ‘factor of 10’ breakthroughs to a variety of platforms that can reduce energy consumption tenfold or bring 10 times the performance of today’s products.”
I’ll believe that when I see it. Intel’s – specifically Ortellini’s – past statements regarding future performance of their CPUs have fallen far short of reality.
About the only part of this speech of his that’s worth the hot air he used to expell it was the bit about the ‘hardened’ laptop powered by a car battery. For the 3rd World, I can think of nothing better than being able to use an affordable computer running OSX. This might be the only truly good thing to come from the Macintel transition.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
” the Apple M1 Battle Mac!!!”
hahaheeeee.. that’s funny!
Nice spin. So if you can’t compete on performance, change the benchmark. What a load of crap. Eat it up, kids.