November 12, 2007
Intel releases Penryn chips
Written by Jan Harris
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Intel has released 16 servers and high-end PC processors featuring its latest Penryn chip technology. The semiconductors are sold under the Intel Core 2 Extreme and Xeon brands.
The new transistor is energy-efficient and greener than its predecessors as lead and halogen materials have been eliminated from the design. It also offers improved performance.
It uses a formula called “Hafnium-based high-k metal gate†which allows around 820 million processors on a chip. This represents the first change to the basic properties of the transistor since the 1960s.
Penryn is Intel’s first chip to be designed on 45-nanometer manufacturing processes.
The new designs include the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad core processor for gamers, featuring a larger L2 cache and support for Intel’s SSE4 media instructions; and 12 Xeon quad-core server processors with speeds from 2GHz to 3.2 GHz.
The release of Intel’s Penryn’s processors shortly follows the launch of rival AMD’s quad-core Barcelona chips.
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